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HOWELINGS/Dishing Out Great Dish
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Howelings
Dishing Out Great Dish
By Mark Howell
Good dish is so very importa
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Thanks, Mark. Who doesn’t love trivia?! Especially on the rich and famous. Robin Leach made a career out it! Anybody remember that show? Perhaps the most watched loud, obnoxious dude on TV from 1984 to 1995. People magazine is another great success at feeding our voyeuristic addiction… I don’t know where it comes from, but we seem to have it bad.
I miss your “quote of the day”, so I have taken the liberty to offer one that I think is apropos to the topic.
“We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Mark, I did meet Marlon Brando. In 1960 The Fugitive Kind was filmed in my hometown of Milton, New York. My friend was hired to drive stars to and from their hotel in Poughkeepsie and Marlon asked if there was a swimming pool in town. “Yes”, my friend replied, “in our back yard!” So I got to meet Marlon, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Maureen Stapleton, Victor Jory and director Sidney Lumet…several times. Marlon would swim the 40 ft. length of the pool underwater several times before surfing. One day a young man on a motorcycle arrived to “visit” with Marlon (rumor verified!). All the stars and members of the film company were personable and pleased to have a private place to relax. It was an exciting summer for me and several other locals. When Marlon left and said his goodbyes, he wrapped his arms around my friend’s sister and gave her a Hollywood style kiss! Dish, dish, dish!