query for Fred (or anyone else) on movie line

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:42 PM -0500 7/8/05, Mullins, Bill wrote:
>Yes she was.  The article was about the trials and tribulations of being
>a theater critic's wife.

--which trials and tribulations she covered more extensively in her
memoir "Please Don't Eat the Daisies", from which both a movie and a
pop song were fashioned, the latter of which is capable of turning
into a world-class earworm if you remember it...

L

>  >
>>  >>"The Sphinx, Second on the Aisle" By JEAN KERR
>>  >
>>  >No relation to either Deborah Kerr, who speaks the line in the movie
>>  >version of T&S, or to John Kerr, to whom she speaks it.  Or
>>  to Johnny
>>  >"Red" Kerr of the Syracuse Nationals.
>>  >
>>  >L
>>  ~~~~~~~~~~~
>>  But married, IIRC, to Walter, NYT theater critic?
>>  AM
>>  >
>>  >>New York Times; Mar 13, 1955; pg. SM17 col 3 "Lately I've
>>  become very
>>  >>adept at judging the precise line on which to start pulling the
>>  >>sleeves of my coat out from under the lady next to me.
>>  >>This might be when an actress says, "In future years, when
>>  you speak
>>  >>of me, be kind,"
>>  >>or when an actor says, "Now that I've got you darling, I'll
>>  never let
>>  >>you go," although I have known shows in which he let her go for
>>  >>another ten minutes after that."
>>  >>
>>