Word: frankness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...newspapers, by studio photographers who set up at the scene and by onlookers who brought along a camera. Fifteen years ago, James Allen, an Atlanta antiques dealer, was inspecting an old desk. In one of the drawers, he came across a postcard of the 1915 lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory supervisor accused on wobbly evidence of murdering a teenage girl in Atlanta. Some years later, Allen was offered a 1911 picture of Laura Nelson, a black woman strung up from a bridge in Oklahoma. Her 14-year-old son had allegedly shot a deputy who was searching...
...fearful ups and downs of Judy Garland's life are ideally suited to the horror-show style of biography Joyce Carol Oates has dubbed "pathography." But though Clarke is frank, you never feel he is piling up sordid details just for fun. He suffers with her every time she repeats the cycle of "a brilliant start, several years of spectacular success--and then disaster" that marked her career from beginning...
...only thing missing from Get Happy is a serious discussion of Garland's musicianship. "I never heard anybody sing...just the way you do," an amazed James Mason tells her in A Star Is Born. Truer words were never scripted. Dumpy and unglamorous, she acted the way Frank Sinatra did, as an intuitive extension of the complex persona she had first painstakingly built up with her voice alone. When Hollywood finally slammed its doors in her drug-raddled face, she moved into concert halls and sang her way back to superstardom. An ideal biography would have had something memorable...
...slid the wooden door open to reveal a room full of thesis-writing guys, who seemed absolutely oblivious to looming deadlines. They were comfortably reclining in large chairs placed about a circular table littered with empty bottles. There was smoke in the air--from cigars and such--and Frank Sinatra's crooning filled the air. I stood for a moment, unsure what to do next...
They say spring ahead, we spring ahead. They say fall back, we fall back. But come this Sunday at 2 a.m., I--in the noble tradition of Mohandas Gandhi and Frank Bruno--will nonviolently resist. And on Monday, like Martin Luther King Jr., I will sit alone with a pen and paper and draft my "Letter from a Manhattan Restaurant Where I'm Alone Because I'm an Hour Late to Meet a Friend...