'LOOPED' HAS TROUBLE STAYING ON TRACK.(LA.COM)

From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | Date: July 12, 2008 | Copyright information

Byline: Jim Farber

Staff Writer

By the time notorious stage and screen legend Tallulah Bankhead entered a Los Angeles recording studio in 1965 (three years before her death at the age of 66), she was a walking train wreck, her body, mind and spirit ravaged by years of drug and alcohol abuse. Nevertheless, she was Tallulah, a formidable power to be reckoned with.

The session required Bankhead to re-record a single line of dialogue from her last screen appearance in "Die! Die! My Darling." It should have taken less than an hour. Instead, it went on for eight!

It ...

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