Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cozy little resort spot called Zephyr Cove on the Nevada shore of Lake Tahoe, sultry Cinemactress Ava Gardner, 31, settled down for six weeks while awaiting a divorce from Husband No. 3, Crooner-Cinemactor Frank Sinatra (No.1: Cinemugger Mickey Rooney; No. 2: Bandleader Artie Shaw). Though well on her way to challenging the marriage records of such Hollywood veterans as Arline Judge (six husbands) and Hedy Lamarr (only five), Ava seemed momentarily weary. Just back from Italy, she was on the mend after a bout with two kidney stones. Nor had she got a warm welcome from her studio, which...
...Courts of Memory, by Frank Rooney. One of the year's best first novels, although tedious in spots, about the lost generation of the '30s and its conformist nonconformists (TIME...
...Courts of Memory, by Frank Rooney. One of the year's best first novels, although tedious in spots, about the lost generation of the '30s and its conformist nonconformists (TIME...
...Fitzgerald's "flaming youth" seem as remote as the Gatling gun. United against their family and the world. Dick and Brace develop a neurotic dependence on each other. But it is more frequently Dick, moving from his first shave to his first girl friend, who needs Brace. Author Rooney uses the death of a grandfather to foreclose Dick's troubled adolescence and shove all his characters eight years ahead into...
...Author Rooney writes lively, intelligent dialogue, and knows well how to describe one generation pushing another over the brink of patience. But when The Courts of Memory trails Dick and Brace on their hunt for mislaid values, it becomes hard to feel sorry for characters who are already so sorry for themselves...