Seuss, Marilyn Monroe, Ogden Nash, Dolly Parton, and Mae West. Here are some quick examples, to hopefully whet your appetite for the fleetest of the art forms ... It ain't braggin' if you can back it up. — Muhammad Ali, who excelled at both bragging and backing up his boasts ...
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and ...
Director Mike Nichols, who had seen Cher onstage in Jimmy Dean, offered her the part of Dolly Pelliker, a plant co-worker and Meryl Streep’s lesbian roommate in the film Silkwood, (1983). Her next film, Mask (1985), reached number two at the box office and for her role as a drug...
No one stints on the Christmas lights in Malaga. These are the Dolly Parton of festive decorations – gaudy, over the top and instantly lovable. I wander back dazzled towards the hotel and discover enroute the other thing Malaga is good at, surprisingly, is gelato.Luccianosuses Argentinian da...
In the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Burt Reynolds, playing a Texas sheriff, falls in love with Dolly Parton, portraying the good-natured, warm-hearted proprietor of a local brothel. That theatrical house of ill-repute was based on a real ...
Joe Willet passes through Islington after enlisting in the army on his way to Clerkenwell to say goodbye to Dolly Varden (Barnaby Rudge). Tom and Ruth Pinch have a house here (Martin Chuzzlewit). Mr Morfin, an assistant manager in Paul Dombey's firm, lives in Islington (Dombey and Son)....
This was quickly fashioned into an intricate knot known as a corn dolly and tied with ribbons. A very similar rite took place in Hertfordshire called ‘Crying the Mare;’ using variations on the calls, including the following one, the Sheaf was fashioned into a four legged figure, with the...
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(Liv Tyler) takes a waitressing job at the restaurant he owns with his mother, Dolly (Shelly Winters). Because it is such a simple story, it can be looked at in terms of the other films I’ve discussed over the past several months, as a means of highlighting shared qualities ofthe ...
Said he wanted to get the same ones, but it really wouldn't matter cuz it would never sound the same, wow it saved my life and still sounds perfect. He had a rad graffiti writer friend named bruno who was really into dolly parton... pretty weird, but whatever. Somehow a friend of ...