When I heard that stage and film director Elia Kazan, the man who mounted A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront, was called "Gadg" by most of the people who knew him, I assumed this was some sort of ethnic family nickname. After all, he was born Elia Kazanjoglou in the suburbs of Istanbul, and "Gadg" sounds sort of Mediterranean, doesn't it?
But David Thomson informs me that "Gadg" was simply short for "Gadget." How pedestrian.
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Kazan used to live next to my sister and tried to peep in every chance he got.
Did she call him "Gadg"?
She eventually called the police.
(Retardedly, she told me about all this and mentioned his name. I said, "Kazan?" And she said, "Yes! Do you know him?")
I am strongly in favor of any comments that use the word "retardedly."
I started right off with it! Never bury "retardedly."
You put it in a parenthetical! It's time for "retardedly" to stand out in the light on its own.
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