Word: stalag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overhead running $30,000 a day. The guardhouse, it turns out, is coming along nicely, except for some ugly screens, which Singh promptly removes from the muntined French doors. He peers at a Government facility up the road: "Now we gotta get the Navy to straighten out the Stalag 13 look there. Those guys are so subtle...
...absolution to the food. The officers' club has been stripped of its jukebox and banners; only the lingering perfume of Major Margaret ("Hot Lips") Houlihan (Loretta Swit) will drive the ghost of Major Frank Burns (Larry Linville) into rages of ecstasy. And in the most famous barracks since Stalag 17-Hawkeye Pierce's Swamp-the cots, footlockers, stove, framed pictures and even the distillery are gone. The giggles and groans of Trapper John (Wayne Rogers) and B.J. Hunnicut (Mike Farrell) and Charles Emerson Winchester III (David Ogden Stiers) are now distant, poignant echoes...
...Corporal Rocco Barbella in Phil Silvers' TV show, You 'II Never Get Rich; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A military motif threaded through the career of Lembeck, a World War II veteran. He played a prisoner of war in the Broadway and Hollywood versions of Stalag 17, a duty sergeant in the film The Last Time I Saw Archie and a soldier in the movie Back at the Front...
William Holden, 63, whose rugged good looks and raspy baritone graced more than 50 films, including Sunset Boulevard, Picnic, The Bridge on the River Kwai and Network. He won an Oscar in 1953 for his hard-bitten prisoner of war in Stalag...
...hard-punching innocent in Golden Boy (1939), but his appeal for the next 40 years was that of the man's man, cocky and cynical, meeting the demands of any situation head-on and with no sweat. He could lead a troop of renegade soldiers out of Stalag 17 (for which he won his Oscar as Best Actor) or across The Bridge on the River Kwai. He was equally at home on the range, leading The Wild Bunch to one last dustup with destiny. Moving and speaking with the languid grace of inherited wealth (his father ran a chemical...