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...jungle called Hollywood, there are two tribes. One is the brown-eyed honey drippers, the other the blue-eyed truth tellers. The honey drippers address their valet parkers as darling, glad-hand everyone who brunches at Patrick's, and make movies they hope the whole world will pay to see. The truth tellers take risks and make trouble. They sign up for roles in eccentric movies and turn down parts in surefire hits. They go their own way, never fretting if others don't follow...
...anyone he received, and more and more Americans turned up. "It seemed natural for me to be entertaining General Marshall or General Eisenhower," she says. Among the visitors was Averell Harriman, then Franklin Roosevelt's special envoy, who was dining with the Churchills at Chequers one night when a valet turned on a radio to provide reports of Japan's sneak attack of Pearl Harbor. Pamela later said Harriman was "the most handsome man I had ever met." He was, however, married...
Opening on a very minimal, shoddy-looking set (a white sheet with a painted Big Ben and a blue sky), we are introduced to Phileas Fogg (Colum Amory), the British explorer who one day decides to have his valet Gitano (Keith Barsky) pack his bags for a trip around the world. With the plot thus taken care of, we can get on with the music...
...considerable overstatement, since by now fitness has become a nationwide preoccupation. But California, especially Southern California, was where the cult of the perfect body began and remains most frenzied: the birthplace of triathletes, personal trainers and the 24-hour gym; a place where celebrities have their Ferraris valet-parked at trendy sports clubs and smoking ranks higher on the list of social no-no's than drowning kittens. It is where Tony Roberts, portraying a Broadway actor who finds success in Los Angeles in the movie Annie Hall, explains that he has encased himself in a foil-like eternal-youth...
...instant fortune changed the life-style of this unassuming former businesswoman. "What do I like about it most?" she muses. "Valet parking!" Ryan had her initial indulgences: she bought the Mercury Grand Marquis she had coveted and a handsome house to replace her mobile home. Otherwise she lives modestly, but with payments of nearly $2.8 million rolling in each year, she knows "I never, never have to worry for the rest of my life...