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Burt Reynolds is the white running-back hero, Billy Clyde Puckett, Kris Kristofferson is his buddy, split end Shake Tiller, and Jill Clayburgh is the girl of their dreams, Miss Barbara Jane Bookman, a Phyllis George clone who looks to have maybe been Sigma Chi Sweetheart of 1962 at Ole Miss. And before this proceeds any further, the discriminating moviegoer should know that while Semi-Tough is at times an honestly funny film, it is also maddeningly sexist...
...talk in a Southwest Conference drawl. His roommate and lifelong good buddy, Shake Tiller (Kris Kristofferson), is still a sticky-fingered end and an earnest naïf. They are still involved, more as pals than as lovers (though that, in time, develops) with Barbara Jane Bookman (Jill Clayburgh). She is a version of that most delicious of Hemingway's conceits-the intelligent and entirely feminine woman who is capable of being a man's man when the occasion warrants...
...Lois Bookman Campbell, Calif...
...gets hot; it rains from time to time; homesickness is ever-present. Those of us with cars drove as much as an hour and a half twice a day to get to and from the territory. Sometimes dogs bite, doors get shut and little children giggle at the "bookman" in his shorts and tennis shoes. Yet 12 out of the 13 who can are going back...
...contact. With the Hustle you can be contemporary but close." Adds Harry Felder, 28, one of Leviticus' owners: "If you know the steps, it's a cool, gorgeous, comfortable thing. People are tired of being away from the person they want to be with." Ron Bookman, owner of Los Angeles' New York Experience, agrees: "People want to touch again, and it's a real turn-on for them. I mean, some of our younger dancers have never touched, dancing, you know...