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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that and other insolence, the group's leader, Black Bart (Cleavon Little) is about to be hung. With the noose around his neck, Bart wins a reprieve--from Hedley Lamaar (Harvey Korman), the governor's scheming aide-de-camp. Lamaar convinces Governor Lepetomane (Mel Brooks) to make Bart the sheriff of the peaceful Western town of Rock Ridge. Lamaar figures that the spectre of a black sheriff will drive the citizens away, enabling him to buy their land and sell it at a huge profit to the railroad...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: A Blaze of Botched Chances | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...cast need all the help they can get. Harvey Korman, better known for his boring slapstickery on the Carol Burnett Show, destroys the comedy of the villain's role by his overbearing and predictable gestures and expressions. Cleavon Little, another gift from the world of TV comedy, plays Black Bart like Stepin Fetchit. Such a portrayal lacks not only racial sensitivity; it lacks...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: A Blaze of Botched Chances | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...sophomore Jim Strathmeyer, wrestling with a slightly injured knee, outpointed Jazenski of Pittsburgh, 7-0. Junior Bart VanDissel, wrestling third-seeded Neil Brendel of Yale, lost by a fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Suffer Defeats at Easterns | 3/2/1974 | See Source »

...Bart Vandissel showed some promise of ending Harvard's lack of good heavy wrestlers by rebounding to beat Princeton's Gerald Greenwood at 190 lbs., after having been pinned by Pete Ingersoll of Penn...

Author: By Theodore O. Rogers jr., | Title: Crimson Matmen End Season, Drop Meet to Penn, Princeton | 2/23/1974 | See Source »

John Adler at 158 lbs., and Bart Vandissel at 190 lbs., both new to varsity competition, accounted for the two Crimson losses, while Brown forfeited the heavyweight bout because of an injury...

Author: By Theodore O. Rogers jr., | Title: Crimson Matmen Destroy Bruins, 40-6 | 2/16/1974 | See Source »

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