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Although Bankhead appeared in a few acclaimed films, notably Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat and Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, she is now better known for her personality. Her drawled "Hello, Daaaaahling" and her never ending flow of conversation, punctuated by quick draws on a cigarette, became fixtures in the drawing rooms (and bedrooms) of many a London and New York society home. She once bragged about having had over 5,000 lovers, and she was romantically linked to many public figures in her lifetime, including Winston Churchill, Leonard Bernstein and Greta Garbo...
...Louis rookie right-hander Britt Reames did show promise out of the bullpen, pitching 4.1 innings of one-run relief in Game Two after Ankiel started the game wilder than Ricky Vaughn...
...father-in-law, "Georgie aggravates the hell out of me at times...but then at times I'm so proud of him I could die." A friend who went to school with the son but worked for the father says, "It's not that W. rebelled; he just was wilder than the old man expected--it was rowdiness. Not doing well in school when you could, being class funnyman--those were huge detours from the code...
...Yardbirds (plagiarized from Johnny Burnett and His Rock and Roll Trio's "Train Kept A-Rollin'"; the Yardbirds' performance in Antonioni's "Blow Up" is the one that changed the course of human events) 9. Cherry Cherry Coupe - Brian Wilson and Roger Christian 10. I'll Be Around - Alec Wilder (performed by Sinatra; the one my wife calls "the stalker song": "I'll be around/no matter how/you treat me now/I'll be around from...
WALTER MATTHAU, who died of a heart attack last week at 79, made moviegoers laugh at their own venality--make that humanity. A deft character actor with star quality, he was the ideal mouthpiece for the wisecracks of Neil Simon (The Odd Couple, The Sunshine Boys) and Billy Wilder (The Fortune Cookie). But he didn't need good writing to be funny. Born Walter Matuchanskayasky, he had a posture designed by Rube Goldberg and a lovely snarl of a voice that cut like a foreclosure notice. That got him small, dark roles (he beat up Elvis Presley in King Creole...