Word: birdman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Stiles laughs at the number of "head cases in vaulting;" he has performed "Junior Birdman routines" on occasions when the pole slipped and he back-flipped into...
...past two decades-except possibly Director Frankenheimer's skill at building action sequences like the foul-up of the Super Bowl circus, which is the climax of Black Sunday. He has always been at his best when a script presents large technical challenges: the tight spaces of Birdman of Alcatraz, the wild railroad chase in The Train, the assassination attempt at a political convention in The Manchurian Candidate, to name the best of them all. Here he has more and perhaps richer elements than ever to play with...
...COMPLEAT BIRDMAN by PETER HAINING 160 pages. Illustrated. St. Martin's Press...
...Compleat Birdman wittily analyzes the unearthly urge that inspired biblical figures, Leonardo da Vinci and just about everyone else who ever wanted to trade the land for the wind. Here is Simon Magus, an early Roman necromancer who rose skyward (possibly by means of a balloon) before a crowd that included St. Peter. To the relief of the early Christian spectators, Magus suffered an instant-and fatal-crash. Haining wistfully relates the tale of Bladud, a doomed 9th century British king, who borrowed a page from Greek mythologies and perished like Icarus with a pair of feather-and-wax wings...
Divorced. Aristotle ("Telly") Savalas, 51, mean-looking, smooth-skulled film actor (Birdman of Alcatraz, The Dirty Dozen) and television star (Kojak, the Polish sleuth), and Marilynn Savalas, 34; after 13 years of marriage, two daughters; in Santa Monica, Calif...