Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so c...hanged that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"The only one who has ever been really mysterious." (Joan Crawford); "Her mystery was as thick as a London fog." (Tallulah Bankhea...d); "In a quick turn of her head, in a frank look, a boyish pout, in that proud glance from lowered lids, so pitying and yet so distant that in others it would be supercilious, in all those expressions of conscious beauty, which when imitated become clumsy, or arrogant, or ridiculous, there is a manifestation of what Hollywood cannot destroy. In the presence of this mystery all that is second-rate can be forgotten." (Cecil Beaton)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... all my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actu...ally Olive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff neck or lock...jaw.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any cr...iterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go t...o bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »