Word: tallulah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magnet of the evening is Maggie Smith as Carson's wife Ruth. She seems to have slithered out of a Noel Coward comedy. Sophisticated, weary of it all, and restless, Ruth is given to brisk interior monologues, like "Help!" or "Watch it Tallulah!" Stoppard has given her a tasty collation of epigrams, and her delivery is succulent. Of her one-night London stand with Wagner, she notes that "hotel rooms constitute a separate moral universe." She develops a sensual fantasy crush on Milne and is heart-wrenchingly crushed when he is killed. Seductively comic, and amusingly seductive, Smith must...
...first play, Marian Seldes knew she would become an actress. Recently, she became an author as well. The Bright Lights: A Theatrical Life is not the autobiography of a famous person, because "I'm not famous." Nor is it a book of Theatrical Celebrities gossip, though memories of Tallulah Bankhead and Laurence Olivier fill the pages. Instead, The Bright Lights interweaves anecdotes with analysis to describe "a lifetime of work in the theatre." The work ranges from the triumph of Equus, which offered the change to act with three stars--Anthony Hopkins, Anthony Perkins, and Richard Burton--and the tragedy...
Robin is rather special himself. He is a cheerful, buttery fellow who is a hairdresser and, sure enough, a homosexual. He has his own problem: Should he come all the way out of the closet and parade at his favorite gay bar as Tallulah? Or Carol Channing? Or (sigh) Bette Davis? He is a dumpy man trying absurdly and wistfully to turn himself into a dumpy woman. Will thousands sneer...
...Ethel was not without her own set of idiosyncracies. By the time she had reached the top of her profession, she is said to have been so imperious that when she once entered a party and found Tallulah Bankhead doing Ethel Barrymore impersonations, she hauled off and slapped the other woman across the face...
...March of 1972, a black mother, Mrs. Tallulah Morgan, her kids and co-defendents, acting under legal counsel from Boston's assertive National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, charged the state, and specifically the Boston School Committee, with doing just that--denying her "Equal protection of the laws"--by willfully and deviously maintaining a segregated school system. (Over half the city's blacks attended almost all-black schools at the time; 84 per cent of the whites went to even more exclusively white institutions.) Two legal precedents, and the quarter century of struggle for civil rights enlightment behind...