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...nomination for Man of the Year is U.S. Delegate to the U.N. Charles Lichenstein. When the Soviets complained about having the U.N. in New York, Lichenstein suggested they could sail into the sunset if they did not like the city. While his geography may be flawed, Lichenstein told the Soviets what many are thinking...
Many, of course, are familiar: Paul Henreid lighting Bette Davis' cigarette in Now, Voyager, a hungry Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert waiting for a lift in It Happened One Night, a mad Gloria Swanson posing for the cameras in her final scene of Sunset Boulevard. Others come as welcome surprises. There is a very young (26) Gary Cooper making an early film appearance in Wings (1927), and in a still from The Picture of Dorian Gray, we finally see what Dorian's naughty escapades did to that portrait in his attic. Sennett has the perhaps obligatory shot...
...that all women), Ronald Reagan (make that most white folks) and a tiny racing crab that managed to scamper onstage. But after replaying his heart attack in Live in Concert (1979) and building a hilarious routine out of his near fatal experiment free-basing heroin in Live on the Sunset Strip (1982), Pryor is here to tell you he has been off alcohol and hard drugs for seven months. Given his hell-bent lifestyle, that amounts to total conversion...
...Pryor's jokes are impudent, but not all are fresh. A routine about visiting Africa is recycled from Live on the Sunset Strip; the warmup baiting of the audience was done in Live in Concert; the junkie serenade recalls Pryor's role in his 1973 melodrama Some Call It Loving. It can also be tough to maintain your underdog snarl when you've just signed a movie contract worth $40 million. (This is a pose Pryor's sassy "godson," Eddie Murphy, avoided in his delirious HBO concert last month, the better to strut his glitter...
...milkshakes. Gloria Swanson often dropped by in a chauffeur-driven limousine, and celluloid myth has it that Lana Turner was discovered there (she was not). Last week, 51 years after it opened its doors and became a tinseltown landmark, Schwab's drugstore dimmed its neon sign on Sunset Boulevard for the last time. Citing financial pressure and what he called a "family dispute," Leon Schwab, 72, the brother of Founder Jack, decided it was better to close than sell. For its many loyal patrons, news of the demise was a real Hollywood tearjerker. "Everybody's trying to figure...