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unearths some literary gems.
From Showcase, ed. Roy Newquist, ill. Irma Selz (1966):
***If there is such a thing as reincarnation, and we have a choice of identities, how many Sammy Davis, Jr.'s will there be? [Newquist]***"I'd heard that Queen Victoria had a German accent....That was why I wanted to see the Marchioness....I asked her if her grandmother, her majesty Queen Victoria, had any discernible German accent, and she said, 'Ach, no, she hadt no more accent than you or me.'" [Helen Hayes]***NEWQUIST: Are you sensitive about the reviews of your movies?ERNEST LEHMAN: Oh, Lord. You are talking to the seismograph of screenwriters. I can record a bad review in Bombay.[Also, Lehman describes one of his own early writing efforts as a "road-company Jerome Weidman," i.e., a second-rate imitation of Weidman.]***"[A show that failed] sort of spurred me on to bigger and better things. Like never working again." [Phyllis Newman]***"Bob Hope can make you laugh at something that isn't funny, and he goes on to his next joke so quickly you're not aware that you laughed at nothing. He's rhythmed you into it." [Robert Preston]***
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