Word: bonelli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William G. (for George) Bonelli is one of the noisiest, most powerful politicians in California. A hawk-beaked, hail-fellow rancher, lawyer and onetime associate professor, "Big Bill''* Bonelli, 58, wears wide-brimmed hats and. when the occasion demands, a Phi Beta Kappa key (won at the University of Southern California). He is also the boss of one of the most potent political agencies in the U.S. As chairman of the California State Board of Equalization, Bonelli supervises the tax assessments of big businesses; as the board member for Southern California, he hands out all liquor licenses from...
...American (Universal-International) is a nice little football picture, timed to get to the theaters as the real thing goes on display in the stadiums. Nick Bonelli (Tony Curtis), the slum-bred hero, is definitely depressing to the crew-cut rich boys at Sheridan U., because of his longish, jive-type hairdo. But most of the undergraduates are willing to suspend class warfare in Nick's case because he is such a good football player. Class harmony is assured when Nick goes off to the barber and comes back to win the big game for the home team...
Negrini himself said nothing-nor did Claire's mother, who gave up and headed back to the U.S. But her Italian lawyer, Niccolo Bonelli, had a few words. Said he: "In any case the story is now completely over for us . . . We consider that Claire has been ruined by a vulgar delinquent...