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...cheese cuts," and they were looking forward to an evening at Valenti's hotel speakeasy, The Boiler Room. Big Jim, trigger-tempered head of the notorious "Doo Dah" gang, had arranged the party for the opening-night floor show starring his bride, a former Detroit showgirl named Boo Boo O'Hare. Boo Boo could warble like a thrush, it was said, and Valenti told one and all that she would be "the next Clara...
...Hollywood gangster shoot-'em-up in the making? Not on film, in any case. In fact, the whole thing is an elaborate fantasy produced and paid for by Multimillionaire Artist Bob Graham, who acts on the conviction that all the world's a stage. Big Jim, Boo Boo and the rest of the Doo Dah gang are actors getting paid $450 a week to portray gangland characters from the Roaring Twenties, primarily for the entertainment of Patron Graham-and anyone else who happens by. So far, this strange amusement has cost Graham some $600,000, with...
...world was a middle-class Middlesex town called Pinner, where he was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight. The lonely, lumpy, myopic only child of an R.A.F. squadron leader, he was too shy "to say boo to a goose." He was so out of favor with his straight-backed dad that he was forbidden to kick a soccer ball in the garden lest he wreck the rose bushes. He was refused permission to purchase mohair sweaters and Hush Puppies shoes, status gear he devoutly hoped would help him gain acceptance in the local smart set in the late '50s and early...
...Boo Boo Raw and Offending the Audience. Asked whether the second item on his intriguing double-bill actually does "offend the audience," author Tom Wright '76 replied, "Yes, and it bores them too." See the avant garde epater les bourgeois, if you like, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Loeb Ex. It promises to be interesting theater...
...sport. For better or worse the Flyers have brought new muscle into the game. Fans cannot resist their intimidating play and all-too-eager fights. In Philadelphia, 17,007 pack the Spectrum for every game to cheer on the "Broad Street Bullies"; on the road, S.R.O. crowds come to boo the tempestuous enemy. The cry for blood explodes whenever Flyer Enforcer Dave Schultz (6 ft. 1 in., 190 lbs.) starts swinging for the nearest hostile jaw. Inevitably, other teams have been infected by the mugging malaise...