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...parlors were a house away from home for those who found the scarlet parrot on her business card an invitation to expensive pleasure; of cancer; in a Hollywood hospital. At Polly's midtown bordello, amid Louis XVI, Egyptian and Chinese furnishings, and a Gobelin tapestry of Vulcan and Venus "having a tender moment," Racketeer Dutch Schultz took his ease, barking orders to henchmen from under a silken canopy, while in nearby rooms Social Registered patrons reveled, and off-duty cops romped. In retirement, tiny (4 ft., 11 in.), dark-haired Polly wrote a bestselling memoir (A House...
...Give, and perfectionist Director George Cukor said no to the flesh-colored "nude suit" Marilyn wanted to wear. Cukor cleared the set of "all males not actually involved in the production," admonished electricians to "turn around," and Marilyn slipped into the pool like Botticelli's Venus, while cameras whirred. As she paddled around, the chief electrician shouted, "Bobby, make your No. 10 a little higher." It was later reported that at this point Marilyn said very distinctly: "I hope Bobby is a girl...
Arthur Kopit. Mom never had it so bad. Amid the Venus flytraps, Barbara Harris glistens as a hilariously voracious sexling. Brecht on Brecht. An oasis for parched minds where the playgoer may sip the aphorisms, songs, scenes and poems of a powerful master of 20th century theater...
...years is forbiddingly time consuming for slow-working human brains. So Mathematician Bryant Tuckerman of IBM got time on a 704 computer. In 40 hours of electronic calculation the 704 riffled through reams of arithmetic and disgorged 301 tables of figures showing the positions of the moon, Venus and Mercury at five-day intervals, and of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the sun at ten-day intervals between 601 B.C. to A.D. Ι. The orbital equations used by the monster computer gave results that are accurate to less than one hour...
...Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit, turns the battle of the sexes into a surrealistic rout. Among the Venus flytraps, Barbara Harris glistens as the most hilariously voracious sexling since Lolita...