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...best stories of the mixed-doubles scene might better be told by a writer like Edward Albee of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, who could chronicle the explosive marital tensions of the game. "What we'll soon need around here," says California's celebrated tennis pro Vic Braden, "is mixed-doubles counselors, not marriage counselors...
...attack; in London. The witty, compact daughter of an Anglican canon, Dame Sybil insisted that she cared "not a blessed hoot about stardom." Between her first appearance onstage in 1904 and her last, in 1970, she gave thousands of performances, many of them with London's famed Old Vic repertory and her actor-director husband, Sir Lewis Casson. Her favorite role: the boisterous peasant revolutionary in Saint Joan, which George Bernard Shaw wrote expressly for Dame Sybil...
Selling Eggs. But it all turned sour. Tonight said "Enough." Rickles replaced him with Vic Damone. His record contract, after studio and musician costs were paid, netted him $180 and produced one single that tested well in Omaha but died in Atlanta-after which Epic dropped him too. Even in the Catskills, audiences played mah-jongg while he sang them love ballads, and they clacked their tiles on the table to show their bored approval. He quit, he says, "in disgust and revulsion...
...enthusiastic. Misfits all, playing-even miserably-gives them a shot at self-respect. Buttermaker considers this and, out of his beery fog, figures the kids deserve a break. His motives are not entirely altruistic, however. On a rival team, there is a gung-ho, supercilious coach (well played by Vic Morrow), and Buttermaker hates his guts...
...Mother was present at the ceremonial laying of the cornerstone for the project in 1951 but all deliberate speed continued to prevail. The building was not actually begun until 1969. However, in 1963, Laurence Olivier was officially appointed head of the National, with the company performing at the Old Vic. Without his towering prestige and his selfless devotion of ten years of his time, it is doubtful whether the idea would have ever become a reality...