Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Married. Muhammad Ali, 35, heavyweight boxing champion and actor (The Greatest); and Veronica Porche, 21, former model and mother of Ali's ten-month-old child; he for the third time, she for the first; in Beverly Hills...
...stars of the film, a saga of CB truckers based on C.W. McCall's 1975 hit song, are more charitable. "Only Sam knows what he's doing, but I trust him," says Ali MacGraw, who is trying to make a movie comeback as a chic photojournalist who falls in love with a trucker. "Sam is like an old dog you sometimes have to apologize for," says Kris Kristofferson, the trucker Ali falls for. A more direct comment comes from Burt Young, who played Talia Shire's crude, ugly brother in Rocky and who goes...
...tournament, but they did manage to steal the show through most of the early rounds. This bizarre collection of ballplayers, ranging from the smiling Javier Fierro, an overweight shortstop with a magical glove, to the sensational Darrell Brown, an All-American centerfielder with the ego of Ali and a similar knack for poetry (this on his arm--"If you run, you're done."), delighted the crowds with his fresh approach to the game and its wacky brand of success...
...booths on various Greek islands. 'Im a hustler," she admits, but she does not like to be called a "packager." She considers herself instead a "liaison between the motion picture community and the artist." Mengers' well-pruned roster of artists includes Candice Bergen, Peter Bogdanovich, Gene Hackman, Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds and Barbra Streisand, whose Mengers-arranged role in A Star Is Born last year earned the Brillo-headed diva about $10 million, minus the agency's 10%. (The story goes that when a frightened Streisand wanted to leave Hollywood after the murder...
They were, of course, the actions of a sublime con artist with a natural instinct for media hype. Ali has it all - humor, anger both real and feigned, a delicious imagination. He understands that the greatest con artists have always winkingly allowed the audience in on their joke. The Greatest is not a biography but another incident in a biography still to be written. As long as one appreciates that it is really the latest flurry in that blizzard-like snow job Ali has huffed and puffed to keep blowing for well over a decade, then one relaxes cheerfully into...