Word: brentwood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...York Times. One of his two outside interests is writing letters to Presidents and other political leaders on such topics as Viet Nam, the ICBM debate and school desegregation. His voluminous correspondence with four Administrations is filed in a cabinet at his ten-room colonial house in Brentwood, where he lives with his second wife, ex-Department Store Executive Frances Loeb, and their two daughters. His other interest is psychoanalysis. After some four years in it, he is such a believer that he has been known to present young writers with $25 gift vouchers for initial sessions with analysts...
Many companies now avoid writing policies on mountain, seashore and vacation homes because they are too exposed to vandalism and fire. One loss is often enough for underwriters to cancel a home or auto policy. For example, Greta Waingrow, a housewife in Brentwood, Calif., not long ago collected on a policy after the mysterious disappearance of her engagement ring. "It was the only thing of value I'd lost in 17 years of insurance," she contends. A month later, the company canceled her policy-without explanation...
...world." As the audience absorbs that modest claim, the film opens on Tad (Scott Glenn), mustachioed and lank-haired, wailing with a guitar in his dingy L.A. beach pad. His chick Tish (Barbara Hershey) is off to check out an uptight middle-class couple whose triplex in Brentwood is without child. Seems Mrs. Triplex has had a hysterectomy, and Tish is to audition for a possible rent-a-womb job with Mr. Triplex. There is heavy bread in the offing if she actually reproduces. "If we start right away, we can have a Scorpio," Tish brightly suggests. Meanwhile...
...were the settings. In the Hollywood days, he had built a Pennsylvania-style farmhouse and farm on nine acres in Brentwood. If the world found him at home as an actor, the kids found him more so on a tractor. Jane, in fact, had no idea of her father's vocation until she asked her mother why Daddy occasionally wore a beard. She adored him. She recalls, "I spent half of my young life wanting to be a boy because I wanted to be like my father." Still, it is easier to be Henry Fonda's daughter than...
...away at six to make his own bed?" A childhood friend remembers him as "a weird kid, relegated to purgatory." Peter admits, "I was shy, difficult and I lied a lot." Peter may have been a hellion, but Jane was a well-behaved, red-haired stick figure at the Brentwood Town and Country School. Her class was filled with other kids as plain as Jane: Gary Cooper's and Claude Rains' daughters, Laurence Olivier's son. A classmate recalls a bit of the Fonda home life down on the farm. "We were all afraid of Jane's father in those...