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The unlikely rise of Judy Holliday from Greenwich Village cabaret performer to movie star begins – if you believe Garson Kanin's account in his memoir Hollywood – with a brief conversation he had with a friend: Main Bocher, the American fashion designer, who had designed the wardrobe for Jean Arthur in the floundering out-of-town previews of Kanin's new play, Born Yesterday. Bocher mentions Holliday, at that point known to Kanin from The Revuers, a nightclub act that also featured Betty Comden and Adolph Green (and occasionally a young pianist and composer named Leonard Bernstein, who would play piano for them...

Avideo of a woman slapping and punching an elderly man on a Delta Air Lines flight for eating without a mask has gone viral. Incidentally, the woman herself was not wearing her mask properly while the altercation took place. The video shows the woman asking the elderly man, who is eating, to put his mask on. He tried to reason with her, saying he was eating. But the woman follows it up saying, “Who invited you to come sit here?” After that, there was a brief exchange of verbal abuse between the two.(snip) After a few more abusive words were...

Are there any Freepers who support John McCain? If you support Mr. McCain, can you make the case for your man? Can you make the case without bringing up the War? Can you make the case without bringing up Judges? Can you make the case without using any ACU ratings? (Those don't impress anybody.) Can you make the case without insults or telling people to "calm down"? Can you make the case without the type of lying and dishonesty we've come to expect from John McCain and his special friend Mike Huckabee? Can you make the case without trashing Barack...

Note: Forgive this vanity, but this must be done. Kudos to the mod on duty for zapping the Tub-girl Troll early. I stayed put to see if he would post again. And true to form, he/she/it did at the same time as it normally does, which is between 0730-0800 hours CDT on weekdays. This probably means that it is posting them from the job, likely from the eastern time zone. Now, who was it? All information should be put out in the open post haste. cyborg, mhking, Darksheare, and I are tired of being the specific targets on this sub-human...

you guys suck!! haha. just kidding. This is my first post on FR. (I am trying to figure out where to post) I am a member of DU though. Oh my God!! those people are crazy!! they defend Castro, are only nominally Democrats because they are anti-Bush and Republicans and have no where else to run. and our generally fanatical lunatics. worst of all, they admire Dennis Kucinich!!!!! hahaha. I was called out there for criticizing Kucinich. Since I am from Ohio, I recall Kucinich was a terrible mayor of Cleveland. but they don't care, since Kucinich is anti-Bush and...