Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. Leo Durocher, 54, loud but expert ex-manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants, who resigned last fall from a high-paying NBC job but has since kept his famed lip from flapping about a rumored return to baseball; by Laraine Day, 39, sweet-smiling film and TV star; after 13 years of marriage, two adopted children; in Juarez, Mexico...
...Apartment. Writer-Director Billy Wilder tells of a sweet-natured schnook (brilliantly played by Jack Lemmon) who shoots up the corporate ladder by turning his apartment into a glad pad for his bosses and their girls, in an excellent movie that mixes comedy, pathos and a tough sense of irony about life. With Shirley MacLaine as fetching as ever, and Fred MacMurray as toothy...
...Hartack, the upset was especially sweet. After winning the Kentucky Derby on Venetian Way, he had been publicly blasted by Venetian Way's trainer and fired as the horse's rider for finishing a poor fifth in the Preakness to Bally Ache (who missed the Belmont with a swollen foot). Owned by a retired Boston banker named Joseph O'Connell, the English-bred Celtic Ash had trained for more than a year for the i½-mile grind of the Belmont, paid off its backers at 8 to 1. Said Jockey Hartack: "He sure was dying...
...story is set in San Francisco, the holy city of hip, and describes how a young cube (George Peppard), who lives with his ever-loving mother and writes nothing novels, sees something sweet where the beat meet to eat. In the book she is a pretty Negro, but in the film she is Leslie Caron. "I want every bit of life," he announces. So they go to her pad and really make the scene, and in the morning he drives her over to see her analyst. Soon they are sharing the same toothbrush, but he wants to write...
...beauty of Judy Holliday's talent lies not least in her meticulous control of it. She knows her type to a tee-hee, and she is never for an instant out of character. Actually, she plays two characters at once: 1) Dumb Dora, the sort of sweet schlemiel who continually falls on her face but always comes up covered with roses, and 2) Dora's diabolical double, a cute cookie who secretly prearranges the roses and from time to time winks wickedly at the audience. She plays both parts brilliantly in Bells, especially in the brief blackout that...