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...There were a few tennis matches at Harvard this week, and where there is tennis, there is, yes, Bud Collins. When I last saw Collins it was at the Longwood Pro championships in July, and he was calmly, totally in control. This week, he was in control again, but not merely as the suffocatingly chic Master of Revels. This time, goddamn, he was running the whole show...
...Bud, you understand, is concerned about the future of tennis, especially in Boston. So, with a little help from the Sportsman's Tennis Club, which hopes to start a grassroots youth movement in the city, and Pepsi-Cola, which was providing the prize money and the only beverages in the house. Bud became promoter of the first World Cup Title tennis championships, sort of a Davis...
Collins, blissfully aware of the monster he had created, let it run loose. The Boston writers, who aren't quite used to this sort of thing, checked it carefully with Collins to make sure that this was the Grade A, official world championship. Yes, it was, Bud said...
...Such deliberate flatulence and obvious double-entendres make for bright, brittle repartee but also a total lack of focus. The film first spoofs Fairbanks-Flynn epics. Then it attempts to satirize Byzantine court intrigue and ends in boudoir farce. In his overzealous attempt to create rococo madness, Producer-Director Bud Yorkin ignores comic economy. Orson Welles' opening narration is gratuitous, and his appearance at the end creates an anticlimax that almost guillotines the movie...
...offense, three for their defense, four for their coach and the fact that the game was in New Orleans, an N.F.L. city. Wrong again. Kansas City Coach Hank Stram (see box) had clearly done a better job of preparing his players for the big game than Minnesota's Bud Grant. The Chiefs outran, outpassed, outhustled and outthought the Vikings to gain a richly deserved 23-7 victory...