Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perfect Recall. Why, then, is The Greatest such an agreeable experience? The answer is that The Greatest, a.k.a. Muhammad Ali - who created this role originally for sportswriters and polished it before a thousand television audiences - has now immortalized it on celluloid with perfect ease and confidence. In real life he has become a bit of a bore, especially as his skills in his higher calling, as perhaps the most artful heavy weight in history, have slipped. But .if he can no longer quite remember what to do in the ring, his recall of his marvelous performances outside it is perfectly...
...That's all Carlo thought when he pulled up to 8 Prescott St. the first morning he came to Harvard, and he was upset. Carlo, who was from Jersey City and was in love with physics, Frankie Valli albums and Ali MacGraw, had come to Harvard because he wanted to like Ryan O'Neill in Love Story. But in Love Story all the buildings had ivy, not to mention wood panelling and fireplaces and young women like Ali MacGraw. His new "home" had none of that--hell, it didn't even have a name, only an address. It had taken...
...parents came up to Boston to take him back to The Concrete State for the summer they were surprised they still had a son instead of the Brooks Brothers ad they were expecting. Carlo's mother, who had always had her doubts about Harvard and who never liked Ali MacGraw to begin with, put the proud-mother beam on to full candlepower. But Lou, who just put a second mortgage on the house and was working overtime and even moonlighted as a cabbie in the winter wasn't so happy. How come he had put out so much good money...
Speaking of boxing, the Ali-Evangelista fight was the most exciting thing I've seen since Evel Knieval's jump over the Snake River Canyon a few years ago. On second thought, there may be more to that analogy than I thought. Maybe Ali, like Knievel, proved that he was over the hill. I'm sorry, I didn't mean it that...
There might have been a punch thrown in that Ali--uh you know, whatsisname fight last night. Somebody could have gotten hurt...I definitely want the movie rights to the Alfredo Evangelista story. It opens with this guy running up the front steps of the Prado while disco/flamenco music plays in the background...When a fight goes two rounds, there are three commercials; when a fight goes 15 rounds, there are 32. So what was Cosell complaining about?...Be sure to catch that new film biography of the Champ, which will be opening at your local theaters later this month...