It is said that, during her first appearance on Broadway there was construction taking place on a building next to the theater. So Kate climbed the scaffolding of the construction site to politely ask the workers if they would be so kind as to cease hammering for three minutes at 4PM each day. This way audience members would be able to hear her quiet solo.
The result became known as a "Kate break" and is reputed to have become a tradition at numerous other construction sites in Manhattan for many years.
"Oh, I did a little research on you. You were born in Columbus, Ohio on May the 22nd. That makes you a Gemini. You're a graduate of MIT with a PhD in science. You're a Phi Beta Kappa, although you don't wear your key, which means either that you're modest or you lost it. You spent World War Two in Greenland, working on something so top secret that even I couldn't find out about it. You're one of the leading exponents of the electronic brain in this country and the inventor and patent holder of an electronic brain machine called EMERAC -- the Electromagnetic Memory and Research Arithmetical Calculator. That's all I found out so far, but I only had half an hour." -- Bunny Watson (Katherine Hepburn) in Desk Set
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Date: 2003-07-01 05:59 am (UTC)Susan: Well, if you'd just ran when I told you to, you wouldn't have had to pay.
David: When a man is wrestling a leopard in the middle of a pond, he is in no position to run.
I still don't believe the news: Kate is immortal. That means she CAN'T die.
One of my favorite Kate anecdotes
Date: 2003-07-01 07:14 am (UTC)The result became known as a "Kate break" and is reputed to have become a tradition at numerous other construction sites in Manhattan for many years.
as the uber-Librarian
Date: 2003-07-01 09:39 am (UTC)You were born in Columbus, Ohio on May the 22nd. That makes you a Gemini. You're a graduate of MIT with a PhD in science. You're a Phi Beta Kappa, although you don't wear your key, which means either that you're modest or you lost it. You spent World War Two in Greenland, working on something so top secret that even I couldn't find out about it. You're one of the leading exponents of the electronic brain in this country and the inventor and patent holder of an electronic brain machine called EMERAC -- the Electromagnetic Memory and Research Arithmetical Calculator.
That's all I found out so far, but I only had half an hour."
-- Bunny Watson (Katherine Hepburn) in Desk Set
Under the spreading chestnut tree...
Date: 2003-07-02 11:41 pm (UTC)maybe it's time for a film festival.