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...personable, good-looking fellow. Sanders had been described as too "suave"' for Georgia's political tastes. But in running against Griffin, he took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves, loosened his tie and invaded the cotton lands (his wife Betty was once Georgia's "First Maid of Cotton"). He promised to try "to maintain Georgia's traditional separation.'' But he also pledged that "violence in any form will not be tolerated...
Though she became known as "the Fourth Warner Brother." Stonewall Davis had to fight for literate scripts and intelligent directors. In her most distinguished films-notably, The Old Maid, The Letter, The Little Foxes, All About Eve-she played grueling, unsympathetic parts that most other actresses would shun. Today, living in California and Maine, Mother Goddam admits that she has been "uncompromising, peppery, untractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile and ofttimes disagreeable." In a line that only Bette Davis could deliver, on or off screen, she concludes: "I suppose I'm larger than life...
...Clayton Powell, the Harlem Congressman, whose second wife is a pretty Puerto Rican who has been on the Government payroll as his secretary. Powell was off in Washington. Inside the villa, 25 miles from San Juan, Wife Ivette was home alone with six-week-old Adam Diago and a maid. Suddenly there were cries of "Viva free Puerto Rico!", and a barrage of rocks hit the house. For an hour the men banged at the front door before giving...
Jules and Jim. In France, love makes the world go triangular. Director François Truffaut (The 400 Blows) translates the ways of two men with a maid into a film that is charming, sick, hilarious, depressing and wise...
Jules and Jim. In France, love makes the world go triangular. Director François Truffaut (The 400 Blows) translates the ways of two men with a maid into a film that is charming, sick, hilarious, depressing, wise and, most of the time, quite wonderful...