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...former merchant mariner who bore an uncanny resemblance to the late Heavyweight Boxer Sonny Listen, Karume came to power in a black-led revolution that overthrew the islands' Arab sultan in January 1964. Zanzibar, which lies 24 miles off the East African coast, united with mainland Tanganyika three months later to form the United Republic of Tanzania. The islands retained their own army and remained a tyrannical law unto themselves. Karume, a Moslem, became First Vice President of the union under Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere; in practice he remained the sole ruler of Zanzibar and rarely visited...
...some English actor who's in 'Cabaret'". And how terribly untrendy it had been of me to giggle at Joel Grey's incredible antics in the movie's opening scenes, but still to wait with bated breath for Michael York to appear, as he finally did, his beautiful boxer's nose suspiciously sniffing Berlin's decadent 1930's air: after all, who is Michael York? Many things to many people in "Something for Everyone." A few might remember him as a stereotypical young Englishman, latent homosexuality personified, Oxford-accented to perfection, in several of his other roles. Or as another...
...that the Big Statement is the only one worth making, and that he's well qualified to make it, Kubrick's gone, after the flukey 2001, from high melodrama to melodramatic allegory. I had better feelings for his prior worst film Killer's Kiss: it had an amusingly-typed boxer hero, and interesting views of Brooklyn, of all places. Sadly, you can't work your way back to unpretentiousness. Kubrick's changed into a pseudo-intellectual's movie mogul, proclaiming the world's philistine guilts without noting his own moral limits...
...idea, though, that George Haywood is a unbeliever. "All will beat Frazier in the rematch," he added. "He's probably the greatest boxer that ever lived...
Ferullo, not an experienced boxer, was bleeding from his face when the fight was stopped. O'Neil, a transfer last year from the University of Colorado, controlled both rounds...