Word: desirability
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...Bess Simmons was a budding Queen of England, co-starring with her first husband, Stewart Granger. She ornamented De Mille-style antique epics like The Robe and The Egyptian, which required only that she look good and speak well. And she went up against Brando first in the 1954 Desirée, where she's a French maid with a crush on Napoleon, then a year later in Guys and Dolls, an undervalued movie much more crucial to Simmons's screen persona...
...Lloyd Bridges, alcohol and suicide attempts. It earned her that second Oscar nomination but no good roles in big pictures. Going where the work was, she exiled herself to TV and the stage. She earned an Emmy in the miniseries North and South and played a more worldly-wise Desirée, singing "Send in the Clowns," in the West End edition of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music. She divorced Brooks in 1977, struggled with alcoholism in the '80s. She had summed up her two marriages by observing that "when I wanted to be a wife, Jimmy [Granger...
...smuggled in anthrax or other unconventional weapons as well as espionage tools like electronic listening devices. The House Homeland Security Committee has scheduled hearings on the intrusion for Dec. 3. The Salahis have been invited to testify, along with Secret Service director Mark Sullivan and White House social secretary Desirée Rogers. They have not publicly responded to the request. (See pictures from the White House photo blog...
...with their complexities and ambiguities. As with Shakespeare, there's heightened poetic expression in Sondheim, but when you dig into it, you find it's in touch with something real." The song "Send in the Clowns" contains not just pretty lyrics, but musings perfectly pitched for the character of Desirée, a glamorous actress pushing 40 and facing what may be her last chance for love. "The cadence, the vocabulary, the incidences in the music, a pause he's written in" - all conspire to create minutely observed characters, says Nunn...
...However, Desir and Ahmed are crossing their fingers that the “LiveStrong” phenomenon won’t die out before the first order is shipped. The bands are manufactured in China and take eight weeks to be received back stateside. If University Hall signs off on their venture, CrimsonBands anticipates a sea of jovial crimson and white wrists come Harvard-Yale in November...