"Tallulah was fun for a time--grand and beautiful and unreal, like a gazelle in the laundromat:
Out of place, graceful, astonishing. Then the gazelle shat on the floor and you weren't sure which agency to call to remove it."
Thursday, November 29, 2012
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oh Miss Bankhead, we used to go to her grave in Maryland and toast on her birthday with gin. Such a broad.
ReplyDeleteNow I have to go there. It's just on the other side of the bay.
Deletei hope i too can get there one day.
DeleteJust outside of Chestertown, in a church cemetery, as far from the church as possible. Seems her brother had connections. The lake nearby may be a cesspool. Cheers.
DeleteTHAT is exactly why she is such a role-model for us all... Jx
ReplyDeletethat's right, now go wipe yourself
Deleteand put some downy in that first machine.
And you never ever ever hear a dull Tallulah story.
ReplyDeleteshe wouldn't allow it.
Delete"Looking for Tennessee Williams, dahling? You'll find him at the bottom of a bottle." ~ Tallu
ReplyDeleteshe & tenn were neighbors.
DeleteBrown Liquor Lowlands?
DeleteI think that there are plenty of people ('round here at least), that would gladly scoop up that gazelle shit...
ReplyDeleteah, to have been one of her infamous caddies!
DeleteYou know, that shot looks rather like Tennessee in a wig.
ReplyDelete"why, thank you," said tenn!
DeleteI was disappointed to click on the "gazelles" tag and find nothing else in the archives.
ReplyDeleteCan we expect more?
hopefully, expectations will be met.
DeleteI often travel through the older Bankhead tunnel when in Mobile Ala. Named for her father, I like to think that I'm traveling through Tallulah's old tunnel instead.
ReplyDeleteone can only hope there's an
Deleteautomatic car wash at the exit.
I think she stayed too long at the fair.
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