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...sing-alongs they used to have, parties at Liza’s old place in L.A., with a peculiar meld of celebrities and civilians. Esther Williams, Quentin Tarantino, and Janet Jackson come up. I remember Esther singing to you! says Stritch, lounging on Liza’s...
...the totality of the effort here, from small touches to a rollout mirror that allows the audience to see dancers forming an Esther Williams . . . swastika (!). It's a night of shtick, sight gags, spit takes, middle fingers and awful(ly funny) jokes. It's...
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...would go on to plague him even decades later. After years of paying his onscreen eye-candy dues opposite such stars as Esther Williams, Cyd Charisse and Lana Turner in mindless films like “Neptune’s Daughter” (1949), “Sombrero” (1953) and “Latin Lovers”...
...It had a ballroom in which the lighting constantly changed, and the largest indoor salt-water pool in the United States—Esther Williams and Johnny Weismuller took advantage of it. It was a favorite with celebrities (novelist Thomas Wolfe, who seems to...
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...McGahan when they served aboard a frigate in World War II. Eddie is on the left, Vern on the right. When Eddie was a child, Esther Williams used to baby-sit him. Eddie received this photo of Esther and hung it next to his bunk on their Frigate, Tacoma...
...collection. There they sat, a tableaux of collective memory, yet vibrant, celebratory, and at times, shockingly funny (Esther Williams' delight of male swimming stars' inability to swim underwater, thereby having her own unique "vantage point" of their...
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