Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such a quick end to such a quick career. The son of a Puerto Rican mother and a Hungarian father, Prinze had used his wit to survive among the teen-age toughs in the Latino section of Manhattan's Upper West Side. Disarming his foes with switchblade-sharp one-liners, he avoided the fighting he hated. At the High School for Performing Arts, Prinze's ability to twit his own background-the comedic formula he never abandoned-earned him star status in the boys' room, where he would try out his routines. His ethnic-based act worked...
...fast trip left the sensitive Prinze off balance. A close friend, Comedian David Brenner, explains: "There was no transition in Freddie's life. It was an explosion. It's tough to walk off a subway at age 19 and then step out of a Rolls-Royce the next day. He was in a life-style that's very unusual for a 22-year-old." Producer Komack, 20 years his elder, became a close confidant. Says he: "Freddie saw nothing around that would satisfy him. He would ask me, 'Is this what it is? Is this what...
...Borman's hard-driving approach eventually made him a vice president, then president and finally chairman. Now he is addressing himself to the great fear among industry analysts that U.S. airlines will not have enough money to replace their planes as existing fleets age. Borman has an idea for that too: Eastern has petitioned the Government for permission to huddle with other airlines to work out the design of an economical jetliner for the 1980s. Other lines are cool to the idea, but it is an example of the fresh thinking that Borman is bringing to an industry that...
...Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in NBC's Feb. 6 movie, Tail Gunner Joe. The film, which also features Burgess Meredith as Lawyer Joseph Welch, Patricia Neal as Senator Margaret Chase Smith and George Wyner as Roy Cohn, spans McCarthy's life from his teen-age years to his death in 1957. The title comes from a bizarre publicity stunt staged during his World War II Marine days. To look like a hero back home, McCarthy engineered news photographs of himself pretending to be a tail gunner. After the war, his campaign brochures announced that he was "known...
Movies have expended much effort, and received scant reward, trying to revive that beloved figure of another age's popular culture-the private eye. They have lovingly re-created his old ambience (Farewell, My Lovely) and succeeded only in embalming him. They have also tried transplanting him, old knightly virtues intact, into our own time. But whether aware of his awkwardness in this era (The Black Bird) or seemingly oblivious of it (The Long Goodbye), the resulting films have been discomfiting...