Word: tallulah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Confident Democrats having a high old time together, all 900 luncheon eaters ($28 a plate) at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, applauded joyously one day last week when Party Faithful Tallulah Bankhead, wrapping her "dahlings" in her bourbon drawl, breathed spite upon the opposition. "Dirt is too clean a word for him," she said of Vice President Richard Nixon. Fumbling for an exit bit, Tallu focused upon the seated form of Harry S. Truman, listed sharply in a maneuver designed to land in his lap but, defeated by his red-faced agility,* succeeded only in a bear hug. Bawled...
...Manhattan home, tuba-voiced Actress Tallulah Bankhead, 55, nursed a painful cut on the forearm. Tallu was alone at home, except for a maid and a young man whom she was considerately nursing through a case of hepatitis, when, in the middle of the night, she slashed her arm on the fragments of a lamp broken in a manner never adequately explained. Then-in her own roaring narrative-"three divine policemen, all six feet eight, came in. They couldn't have been more charming. They got me this sweet doctor and he took five stitches in my arm." While...
...imaginative has vanished; something crucial-the time element that shapes crises and aids credibility-has been destroyed. For an act, as the emotional furniture is set in place in Designer Ben Edwards' gloomy, fan-vaulted hall, Eric Portman-playing Rochester in the manner of a wholly masculine Tallulah Bankhead-wards off collapse. But Jan Brooks is never Jane. Adapter Hartford's hand is never skilled, and things more and more creak till what goes up, quite melodramatically in smoke, is not so much Thornfield Hall as a mass of theatrical deadwood...
Indestructible Tallulah Bankhead, fond of regarding herself as the most outspoken lady of the U.S. theater, tersely philosophized on the contemporary T-shirt school of Methodical actors: "They're just wasting themselves. They're just learning to be a bunch of apes. They'll never be able to perform the classics or Shakespearean dramas. They're just learning how to pick their noses...
...Actress Tallulah Banlchead switched to philosophy, found it so smooth that she fashioned a 120 proof pousse-café for readers of Esquire: On Elvis: "I hear that he's good to his mother and father, and I don't think for one moment that he's conscious of what he's doing." On sex: "We have it on the brain too much. That's no place for it." On the deity: "My own belief is actually very simple. I believe that if there isn't but one God, there...