Word: wanna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cincinnati 6-0 when the public address system sputtered: "Attention, ladies and gentlemen. The vote on Proposition B, returns from the first 58 precincts, shows: yes, 3,844 votes; no, 3,557 votes." The crowd hooted. "Can I change my vote to no?" roared a first-base fan. "I wanna send these bums back to Brooklyn...
Archibald Lee Moore, light-heavyweight champion of the world, kept the transcontinental call properly terse. "You wanna fight Willi Besmanoff in Louisville the night before the Derby?" asked Archie's manager in New York. "How much?" asked Archie in San Diego. "Ten thousand." Said Archie: "I'll be there...
HOLLYWOOD stars are never mere ly "born"- and rarely stay bearable. Even with such uncommon clay as beautiful, white-blonde Kim Novak, 24, now the nation's No. 1 box-office attraction, it took a heap of studio craft to make a star. ("If you wanna bring me your wife or your aunt," says Starmaker Harry Conn, "we'll do the same for them.") Columbia Pictures, which shaped Kim to fill the place of an uppity Rita Hayworth, plunged Actress Novak into an ordeal which is now approaching full cycle, ironically confronts the studio with the old problem...
...Without Leers. How did it happen? Growls Harry Cohn, a 66-year-old professional ogre dubbed "White Fang" by Hollywood wits: "If you wanna bring me your wife or your aunt, we'll do the same for them...
...Philip Abbott) is a hilarious but touching study of altar nerves ("She's going to expect a lot. She's a widow"). The hardened bachelor (Jack Warden), young but not so young as he used to be, is also pathetic. "Home?" he laughs. "What do I wanna go home fuh? I awready read alia papuhs." But nobody is fooled. And this is what Paddy Chayefsky truly understands and poignantly expresses: that loneliness is really a kind of childishness, and that life is really not worth living without love...