Word: ava
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...table at 6 o'clock. I come and go as I please. So I can devote my time to them and I'm blessed with their confidence." He was best man when Harry James married Betty Grable, gave the bride away when Sinatra married Ava Gardner. In a world of sharkskin-suited man-eaters, he has risen to the top by sheer amiability, consideration and eagerness to please. Once when he was flying to Hollywood with Milton Berle, the comedian exclaimed unhappily that he had forgotten to buy life insurance for the flight. "Have half of mine," said...
...Principles & Ideals." Through the evening, as the size of the victory rolled into a landslide and then into an ava lanche, President Eisenhower kept no chart as Franklin Roosevelt had done on election nights. He depended entirely on the television set and press reports brought in by Secretary Hagerty and son John. At 10 o'clock, as previously planned, he dressed and rode off to the Sheraton-Park Hotel, where the Republican National Committee had set up its victory headquarters. There, surrounded by members of his Cabinet and other close associates, preparing to make his victory appearance before...
Often spotty and frequently disjointed, the film traces the history of bullfighting from Rome's Circus Maximus to Ava Gardner, examines a matador's life from his eating habits (little or no food before a fight so that he can be operated on immediately if a goring lays open his belly) to his occupational hazards (an estimated 10% of bullfighters are killed in the ring, 13% are crippled, 40% are wounded at least 20 times in their careers...
...first issue, with 300,000 copies already run off, will hit the newsstands early next month carrying recorded interviews with Tony Curtis and Jane Powell. For fans who can read, Hear also offers such written staples as "Who Put the Heat on Tab Hunter?" and "The Tragedy of Ava Gardner." The new magazine is the brain child of two Hollywood pressagents, gets its disks from Rainbo Records, whose president, Jack Brown, ran a World War II experimental project for the U.S. Navy to combat mosquito pollution by wooing the insects with recorded mosquito mating sounds. In its second issue Hear...
...more audacity with dialogue and camera than Hollywood has seen since the obstreperous Orson Welles went riding out of town on an exhibitors' poll. What's more, Director Kubrick made his entire movie for a price ($320,000) that would hardly pay for the lingerie in an Ava Gardner picture, with the result that The Killing seems likely to make a killing at the cash booths...