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...began to drink alone in the closing weeks. Despondent and withdrawn, she was embarrassed one noon when surprised by kitchen help as she was filling a tumbler with bourbon. She would spend long hours in her pale yellow bedroom, often returning her luncheon tray with the food untouched...
...never felt quite at home with his tough-guy image. That famous grapefruit-in-the-face scene with Mae Clarke in The Public Enemy (1931), he complains, followed him for years: "Invariably, whenever I went into a restaurant there was always some wag having the waiter bring me a tray of grapefruit. It got to be awfully tiresome." So which of his 62 films did he enjoy the most? Yankee Doodle Dandy, in which he played the Broadway music maker George M. Cohan. Says Jimmy, now a gentleman farmer in New York...
...tall and usually managed to grab one of the coveted popcorn positions. My friend and I would take our first tray, stroll over to section one, eat popcorn, read the Black Panther--Stop the War Machine--Dump Johnson literature we had picked up earlier in the morning, and wait for the fans to arrive...
...same tone of grayout pervades every remark. For example: "I really like to eat alone. I want to start a chain of restaurants for other people who are like me called Andy-Mats-The Restaurant for the Lonely Person. You get your food and then you take your tray into a booth and watch television...
...bourgeois respectability, smoothly articulating his planned platitudes to a carefully selected, receptive audience. Midway through his speech the moderator calls for a break so that the listeners can refresh themselves with mugs of beer--on the house, of course. From behind the counter emerges a waitress carrying a tray of refreshments, and a striking entrance it is: tall and slender, with long black hair and deep Italian eyes, she creates an inevitable stir, an Aphrodite rising in a sea of mediocrity. The next day the engineer returns to the cafe, and, after obtaining the waitress's address, drives...