Word: breslin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Levi is not alone. Ed Redlich wears a white Santa Claus beard for his disguise. Dan Breslin's Autolycus is complete with a black construction-paper moustache. Breslin's performance is all jerking eyebrows, scat songs and slapstick falls...
...York Daily News (he is also a chairman of the editors' committee that commissioned the Yankelovich survey), accepts the recent shift to personal journalism. He has introduced "people" and "lifestyle" pages to his paper, and to his staff has added verbosely flamboyant reporter-columnists, 'ILo Jimmy Breslin, whose tough-guy sentimentality is often self-parodying. O'Neill just hopes it will be possible to provide more personal reporting without reviving that curse of the 1960s, opinionated advocacy journalism...
...usually does, the FBI credited its "intensive investigation" and "confidential informants" with breaking the case. In fact, FBI agents, New York undercover cops and even such gangwise newsmen as Jimmy Breslin, who first detailed the robbers' troubles, knew where to begin looking right after the sensational heist. They all searched their files and memories for the names of former habitues of Roberts Lounge, a bar near the airport where known cargo thieves, airline cargo handlers and plainclothes cops mingled, drank and bet on horses. The bar changed hands two years ago, but its current customers buzzed with gossip about...
This movie asks several less than momentous, perhaps risible, questions. Could a figure very like Columnist Jimmy Breslin, the slob-throb voice of New York's little guy, find love and happiness with a young woman cut from the same fine cloth as Dancer Gelsey Kirkland? Can the public be persuaded to accept, as a heartwarming example of the human spirit's indomitability, her triumph over what appear to be terminal leg cramps on opening night of her first starring part in a ballet? Can another big crash-bang score by Bill Conti once again drown...
...anyone objects to Jimmy Breslin's statement [July 2] that "The No. 1 reason any professional writes is to pay the bills," he should be informed that Dr. Samuel Johnson put it even more strongly (on April 5, 1776) when he said, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." Boswell disagreed, but perhaps some feel that he is still covered by Johnson's claim...