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About Lolita Davidovich: "A kind of cross between Julia Roberts and Jack Nicholson. " Jeremy Novick.  About Bo Derek: "She turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines." Joan Rivers. About Isadora Duncan: "A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it." George Bernard Shaw. About Shelley Duvall: "The worst and most homeliest thing to hit the screens since Liza Minelli. " John Simon. About Farrah Fawcett:  "Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair."  Tom Shales.  About Mia Farrow's marriage to Frank Sinatra, former husband of Ava Gardner: "Hah! I always knew Frank would end up in bed with a boy!  Ava Gardner. About Jayne Mansfield: " Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater. Bette Davis. About Sharon Stone:  "It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what's between her ears instead of her legs. Katherine Hepburn. About Brooke Shields: "The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev. " Robin Williams. About Loretta Young: "Whatever it was that this actress never had, she still hasn't got it. Bosley Crowther.  About Roseanne Bar: "The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat being neutered."  Johnny Carson. " Roseanne Barr is a bowling ball looking for an alley." Mr. Blackwell. About Phyllis Diller: "I treasure every moment that I do not see her."  Oscar Levant. About Joan Rivers: "When it comes to acting, Joan Rivers has the range of a wart." Stewart Klein.

About Lillian Hellman: "Every word she writes is a lie, including (and) and (the)." Mary McCarthy.  About Molly Ivins: "She bellies up to the gourmet cracker-barrel and delivers laid-back wisdom with the serenity of a down-home Buddha who has discovered that stool softeners really work." Florence King. About Dorothy Parker: "To those she did not like . . . she was a stiletto made of sugar." John Mason Brown. About Louisa May Alcott: "She preserved to the age of fifty-six that contempt for ideas which is normal among boys and girls of fifteen. Odell Shepherd. About George Elliot, pseudonum of Mary Ann Evans: "George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality." George Meredith. "A fungus of pendulous shape." Alice James.

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