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...brother and sister taxpayers." Olivier, who has recently forsaken his own stage career (but not films) after battling a strength sapping muscle disorder, finished his speech by wishing to those who follow, "joy eternal." While the audience, which included Playwrights Eugéne Ionesco and J.B. Priestley, applauded, the trouper then made a low, and justifiably long...
...Tammy Grimes, Larry Kurt, John Raitt, Dick Shawn and Lillian Gish. The three ladies stand out: Munsel with her silver-tongued lyric soprano; Grimes, who is a mischievous imp of the stage; and the in destructible Gish, who at 80 is still a darling little girl and a valiant trouper...
Hoping to drum up some interest in her current swing through Australia, Aging Trouper Marlene Dietrich, 73, promised her tour promoter, Cyril Smith, to step out of character and hold her first interview in three years. Trouble was, the singer banned photographers and TV cameramen from the Sydney press conference, and Dietrich's representatives handed out a list of two dozen questions that newsmen should avoid asking. Samples: How many grandchildren do you have? How many films did you make? When did you make The Blue Angel? What do you think about women's lib?* Inevitably, someone broke...
...even have trouble with his costar. "Until the picture, I never liked cats. But Tonto is a helluva cat. He had two stand-ins-cats that looked exactly like him-in case he got sick or was hit by a car. But old Tonto was a real trouper, never used a stand-in once. In the last scene, where he's dying, I just looked at him lying there in his cage and I was really sad and shaken." Tonto amiably accepted Art's conversation, modeled on his uncle's chats with his dog. "I never thought...
...there was another Jack Benny -less comic but considerably more generous. It was that trouper who traversed the country, raising some $6 million for America's leading orchestras. Thank yous were always abruptly dismissed. "Soloing with Leonard Bernstein," he liked to claim, "is like being on a desert island with Zsa Zsa Gabor and her boy friend. You feel you're not needed...