James Stewart
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Read, Watch, Play: The Most Fun New Year's Challenge Ever
… rarely think to put fun stuff on my to-do list, so things that I really love, like chain-reading novels, or watching Jimmy Stewart movies, get put off. But if I commit and my fellow fifty-fifty's are waiting for me to weigh in—well, I'm sure …
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Read Chapter 1 of Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage
… Dean Martin, the suave, handsome crooner. Years later, I would actually get the chance to star in a movie with Dean and Jimmy Stewart ! Just as the war ended, in 1945, so did my kindergarten class. A dark cloud had been lifted, and we moved out of …
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How to Cope With an Unlucky Streak
… forget, but you do—you must. And still, the dreams come. In them, a kindly old healer—part Jonas Salk, part Jimmy Stewart —hears of my suffering. Tears well in my eyes as he clutches me to his bosom. "It's been a nightmare for you, hasn …
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What Does It Take to Lose 200 Pounds?
… was 220/160—that's considered stroke level—and she was rushed to the emergency room, where she sat like the Jimmy Stewart character in It's a Wonderful Life, thinking of the people she'd leave behind. "My father had died of a stroke, and …
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The Mighty Chick Flick
… deliriously enjoyable melodramas ever. 19. The Shop Around the Corner (1940) This charming Ernst Lubitsch comedy stars Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan as employees of a leather goods shop who squabble at work while pseudonymously falling in love by letter …
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Back Roads
… pitted with dead gray mining towns like cigarette burns on a green carpet. My hometown is Indiana, PA, which was also Jimmy Stewart 's hometown. Half the streets are named after him and we have a bronze statue of him in front of the courthouse that looks …
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20 Questions with The Invisible Bridge Author Julie Orringer
… watch that movie a hundred times and still fall in love anew with Kate Hepburn's coolness, Cary Grant's wry wit and James Stewart 's teasing intelligence. Though the characters are idealized as 1940s movie characters are, they're also believably …
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Oprah Talks to Ralph Lauren
… their way up like I did. I wasn't in love with the whole fashion world—my heroes were people like John F. Kennedy and James Stewart . I wanted to be a movie star, a cool guy. I wanted to go on dates. I wanted to be honest and to do the right thing …
