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...Soon afterward, he turned his love affair with the English language into a profession. They have been an item for 47 years, spanning forays into sexual innuendo (Shakespeare's Bawdy), A Dictionary of Cliches, and Partridge's most famous work, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. Until an operation several years ago left him quite frail, Partridge spent his days in carrel K-1 of the British Museum Library, reading everything from pulp novels to plays (consuming "about 80% of all comedies written in English between 1530 and 1970" for his latest work). In the tradition...
...refused to release a list of contributors to the Spanish Refugee Appeal, a group providing medical help to the Spanish Republican forces opposing Franco's fascist movement. This refusal earned Fast, a director of the organization, a three-month term in jail for contempt of Congress. And for years afterward Fast was unable to find a publisher who would handle his work...
...typical of Ball, who was born into one of Virginia's oldest families, quit school early and moved from job to job in search of fame and fortune. He was peddling law books when his sister Jessie became Alfred du Font's third wife, and shortly afterward Ball was hired as the millionaire's aide Du Pont, a onetime chief director of the family business, had been forced out in a corporate power play and was seeking to build an empire of his own in Florida Before and during the Depression, Ball made regular swings through Florida...
They played lovers onstage, and afterward, as the most casual of friends, passed the time with Tony Roberts, who played Diane's husband in the production and later in the movie. "We'd hang around together, nothing big, have dinner," recalls Woody. "Tony and I couldn't stop laughing at Diane. It was nothing you could quote later; she couldn't tell a joke if her life depended on it. Tony tried to figure it out one time, what it is she does. He says she has this uncanny ability to project you back into an infantile atmosphere...
...baseball player, newspaper reporter, rider of freights. He played chess with Bogart. He directed and wrote the screenplays for Key Largo, Blackboard Jungle and In Cold Blood. His regular practice is to give actors segments of the script just before scenes are to be shot, then collect them afterward and destroy them in a paper shredder. "I don't trust anybody," he yells. "I've seen it happen too many times. The best goddamned thing in your movie shows up in a goddamned TV show six months before the movie is out. I don't want anything stolen." He yells...