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Born. To Edie Adams, 39, ever-lovely nightclub comedienne and cinemactress, widow of the late Comic Ernie Kovacs, and Marty Mills, 41, a freelance photographer: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles...
...BRIDE WORE BLACK. François Truffaut pays a loving and witty tribute to Alfred Hitchcock as he spins the sardonic story of a widow (Jeanne Moreau) bent on wreaking bloody vengeance on her husband's killers...
...Hotel," Carl Sandburg once wrote, "more justly could be called the center of Washington than either the Capitol or the White House or the State Department." In August 1923, in fact, it did serve as an interim White House while Calvin Coolidge waited for Warren Harding's widow to vacate the executive mansion two blocks away. Lincoln lived at the Willard with his family before the 1861 inauguration. U. S. Grant would shamble over in the evening to smoke cigars and glower from the armchair set aside for him in a dimly lit corner of the lobby...
...night for seven days. The dancing kept up, the drinking kept up, the noise went on." Thus, in 1926 in The Sun Also Rises, did a young Ernest Hemingway describe the Feria de San Fermin, the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. This month his widow Mary made a sentimental journey to Pamplona to witness the unveiling of a monument to Papa, erected by the citizens in gratitude for his interest in their fiesta. Standing on the newly named Paseo de Hemingway, Mary thanked the citizens through her tears. There was an emotional pause, then six bands burst into...
...characters sound intriguing. There is a rich, young widow, Marie Forbes, who yearns to do good by performing positive actions; she starts on her career "quite purposefully" killing her swinish husband with a heart attack -resulting presumably from sexual exertion. The author builds her characterization by having her use foul language as often as possible. But as Mark Twain once remarked of his wife's swearing, "she has the words but not the tune...