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...roller-skates seven miles across San Francisco to his office. He is not alone. The Bay City also boasts a roller-skating messenger service, skating grocery shoppers and skating mothers pushing baby carriages. In Los Angeles, Linda Ronstadt skated to a luncheon date with Governor Jerry Brown. On the boardwalk in Venice, Calif., a thousand skaters may appear on a Sunday, navigating perilously among pedestrians, while rolling guitarists serenade the sunbathers. In Minneapolis, the owner of Rolling Soles, Scott Sansby, 27, finds skating a practical means of transportation. "I tie my shoes to my belt loops and take...
Acting Coach Lee Strasberg believes in practicing what he teaches. His last film appearance was in The Cassandra Crossing, and now Strasberg, 76, is co-starring with Ruth Gordon, 81, in Boardwalk. As an elderly Jewish man who runs a cafeteria in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach, he is tormented by rowdy youth gangs. "Typewise," says Strasberg, the part is wrong for him. "I'm essentially intellectual, sensitive or scientifically oriented, or whatever you call it," he reflects. Among his dream roles: Kissinger, Einstein and Freud...
...rest in 24 hours." Wynn told reporters that the owner was so surprised "he almost dropped dead." Also scrambling to open casinos are Playboy Enterprises, which plans to build a new hotel, and Penthouse International, which has acquired the Four Seasons Motel and Holiday Inn on the Boardwalk...
...potential casino owner certain to be the subject of scrutiny is Morris Shenker, who put up $10 million to buy the President Motor Inn on the Boardwalk. Formerly one of Jimmy Hoffa's lawyers, he is part owner of the Dunes Hotel and casino in Las Vegas. Because of Shenker's links with a scandal-ridden Teamsters Union pension fund, he has been investigated off and on for more than 20 years by the Internal Revenue Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Justice Department and the Nevada gaming commission. Mob activity in Atlantic City...
...legalized gambling is not transforming Atlantic City as fast as some residents had expected. Except for the crush inside the Resorts International Hotel and the wild bidding in real estate offices for Boardwalk property, the city is still much the same as always. Earlier this year, many home and shop owners posted FOR SALE signs in hopes of making quick fortunes. But much of the opening-day hysteria has passed, and rents of property not on the Boardwalk have returned to normal. Indeed, some residents joke that the city's best chance of getting new money...