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...Zevon, the patented Eastwood brand of low-boil violence and poker-faced absurdity may seem as natural as a song. His father, a Russian immigrant, was a onetime boxer who made his living as a professional card player. When William Zevon wanted to marry Warren's mother, the impending union caused a family crisis that became, 18 years later, the subject of their only son's most autobiographical song. Mama Couldn 't Be Persuaded...
...ring with a strong, fast, young Cassius Clay, who had nothing to lose and a crown to gain. Last week Muhammad Ali was a tired man too, pummeled in the ring for 24 years?amateur and professional. At 36, he was old for a fighter?especially for a boxer who must move and whittle. And, like Liston, Ali had looked across the ring and seen a lean, eager, young fighter. In the words of Promoter Bob Arum: "Ali was beaten by his own shadow...
...there's a new champ with a 7-0-1 record and a very vulnerable future. The former marine, the kid who grew up as a TV boxer, the Olympic gold-medalist, and the kid they all said should never have had the shot--he's the champ...
...time. But only at the wheel, Witteman found, does the otherwise quiet and domestic Eastwood, who does not even bother with standard Hollywood equipment such as a pressagent, live up to his screen image. After a stint in the passenger's seat of Eastwood's Ferrari Boxer, tooling down those twisty Monterey Peninsula roads, Witteman admits that he was "scared to death." Most Eastern critics tend to dismiss the macho and mayhem films made by the two superstars as drive-in popcorn or worse. But Contributor Richard Schickel, who wrote this week's cover story, takes...
...Plimpton persuaded Archie Moore, then light-heavyweight champion, to box with him, the results to be set down in a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED article. Plimpton found a trainer named George Brown. "I had been introduced to him by Ernest Hemingway, who always spoke of him with highest regard-as a boxer who could have been a champion if he had been able to accept the idea that he was going to be hit once in a while...