Word: talleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Talley's Folly...
After Wintour arrived at House & Garden last fall, rumors of a Dynasty-style cat fight with Brown began to circulate. Although Wintour did snatch Fashion Writer Andre Leon Talley away from Vanity Fair, the two women say they are friends, not rivals. Still, the talk grew louder earlier this year, when Wintour's controversial makeover of House & Garden (which she renamed HG) hit the newsstands. Aghast at a number of similarities to Vanity Fair -- particularly the emphasis on celebrities -- one wag dubbed HG "Vanity Fair with chairs...
...Wilson won a Pulitzer Prize for Talley's Folly and Broadway acclaim for Fifth of July, companion pieces set on the same Missouri homestead. In Burn This, he reaches for a less sentimental key. But onstage the louder voice belongs to John Malkovich, a rising star (Death of a Salesman with Dustin Hoffman, Paul Newman's film of The Glass Menagerie) doing an Actors Studio- style star turn. As the intrusive brother, he slams in, bounces off walls, spews a stream of unapologetic profanity, all the while wearing -- at the actor's insistence -- a shoulder-length black wig that brings...
...play is the story of Kenneth Talley Jr. (Tim Ashford), an overeducated homosexual who lost his legs in Vietnam. He lives on the Talley family farm near Lebanon, Mo., with his lover, Gardener Jed (Josh Frost). It's Independence Day, 1977 and Ken is holding a reunion of sorts with his aunt, his sister and her illegitmate child, and two old friends...
...donated by local citizens and businesses, which picked the projects from a ten-page brochure as if they were selecting presents from an L.L. Bean catalogue. The printing bill for the presentation ran to $250, but even that cost was borne by donors, the city council members. Explains William Talley, city manager of Anaheim, Calif, which also publishes a catalogue for givers: "Cities can't ask the Federal Government for the money because it doesn't seem to be in that business any more, and the state government is balancing its budget on the backs of the cities...