Search Details

Word: swimathon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...time shooting was ready to begin last month, the producers had chosen most of the private pools for Lancaster's swimathon. The homeowners went along for fees of about $500 a day and assurance that the film crews would use mobile toilet facilities and not go traipsing into people's houses. A single exception was the star, who one evening appeared in a terry-cloth robe at one back door and asked: "Are you the lady of the house? I'm Burt Lancaster. May I have a vodka martini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Location: OK Everybody Out of the Pool | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

| 1 |