F**king-A

[Baker, John]

        From George Plimpton, _Truman Capote_ (1997), as excerpted at http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/1297/plimpton/excerpt.html, Norman Mailer is reminiscing:

        >>For example, there was Talullah Bankhead! For twenty years she'd been enjoying the coup her public relations man had given her when as the legend had it, she said to me, "Oh, you're the young man who doesn't know how to spell 'fuck.'" For those who are too young to know, it was because I had used "fug" in The Naked and the Dead. Of course we had never met.<<

John Baker


-----Original Message-----
From: David Bergdahl [mailto:bergdahl at OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 10:41 AM
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Subject: Re: F**king-A


> (I forget of whom the story was told--Mary McCarthy? Lillian
> Hellman?--that when she was introduced to Norman Mailer she announced
> to him "So YOU'RE the man who doesn't know how to spell 'fuck'".)

Talullah Bankhead
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