Fuggin' A man, C.I A. man!

[orangecrush]

"As much as the youthful Norman Mailer may have enjoyed inflating his self-image by inundating friend and foe with a superheated geyser of fucks, his favorite word wasn’t acceptable for the printed page in 1948. The disgruntled (read “pissed-off”) Mailer was forced to substitute the word fug for fuck in his gritty war novel The Naked and the Dead. The story goes that this prompted the waggish starlet Tallulah Bankhead to say upon first meeting Mailer, “So you’re the young man who can’t spell fuck.” "

https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/05/how-the-f-word-was-written-in-1948.html


The Fugs!

[Easterncedar]

1. Ah, Tallulah!

Good story!

[orangecrush]

2. ...

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

3. They DON'T make 'em like her anymore.

[orangecrush]

5. Word

[Easterncedar]

4. Great picture

I had the wonderful experience of seeing Kathleen Turner in Chicago do her solo show on the life of Tallulah. It was a brilliant performance of a very witty bit of writing. Great memory.

[orangecrush]

6. Thanks, Easterncedar!