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...bond for Rocky." Winkler and Coproducer Robert Chartoff were stunned when Stallone insisted on playing the title role himself-and got his way, although he had $104 in the bank at the time. He remembers telling his wife Sasha: "If you don't mind going out in the backyard and eating grass, I'd rather burn this script than sell it to another actor. She agreed." United Artists put up a modest $1 million for Rocky, and Director John Avildsen (Save the Tiger) shot the film in a brisk 28 days...
...their business dealings for about five months. In Norway, neighbors of the neat brick North Korean embassy in Oslo's West End had long been puzzled by the constant movement of cars in and out of the compound and by the sight of mission staffers struggling in the backyard with huge mysterious boxes. In Denmark, customs officials got suspicious last month when the North Koreans imported 2.5 million duty-free cigarettes, allegedly for the "personal use" of one staffer...
...linksmen weren't taking things lightly, though, with a chance to topple the Minutemen in their own backyard. It was basically the same Minutemen contingent that nudged the Crimson out of a berth in the finals of the NCAA tournament held at Albequerque last year...
...official. His fears seem well founded. Golfers at New Orleans Bayou Barriere Golf Club have become somewhat timid since club members found and killed a 5-ft. gator near the 14th fairway. A Metairie, La., family called off an afternoon swim when they found a four-footer in their backyard pool. In Alabama last month a 13-ft. gator glided up to a 30-lb. beagle and swallowed it in one gulp...
...unsurprising that Horner's behind-the-scenes negotiating technique has left many Harvard observers whispering that Radcliffe has nothing to do. This belief has some logic since Horner, albeit well known on the national scene, is rarely heard from in her own backyard. As one long-time Harvard observer put it, "Most people on this side of the Common have no reason to know the president of Radcliffe...From what anyone can gather, Radcliffe has spent the last four years deciding whether freshmen should live in the Quad and that's a pretty petty issue...