Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more of a challenge." Though his Flash Gordon series still survives in TV reruns, Crabbe never bothers tuning in on his old star trips with Dale Arden, Dr. Zarkov and mean Emperor Ming. "I don't have to," he says, flaunting his own credentials as a nostalgia buff. "I have the whole series at home. I can watch them whenever I want...
People who back movies are usually large on imitation and wary of innovation. The idea of an all-kid gangster musical must have seemed like an unprecedented long shot. There has never been anything quite like it, although, pressed, a film buff might recall a 1933 western curiosity called Terror of Tiny Town, acted by midgets. After meeting persistent, not to say astounded resistance, Parker and Marshall had to put up more than $50,000 of their own money to get initial work on the movie under way. Various film-investment outfits and Paramount supplied the balance of the nearly...
...Meditation tour-80 true believers led by Cleveland-born Guru Alice Christiansen-took off last week for Srinagar in Kashmir, there to spend five weeks aboard houseboats on polluted Dal Lake. Mike Kong of New York City is selling an unwrapped package for nudists titled "Vacations in the Buff" (in the Caribbean), which, according to his office, has been designed to attract "the more sophisticated traveler, anxious to try a new experience, something more casual." The variety is unending. New York City's American Museum of Natural History sponsors scientific tours of the Nile, the Black Sea and African...
Reporter-Researcher Jay Rosenstein, a sports buff and once a member of a Navy Officers' Candidate School swimming team that he calls "the worst," did the main reporting on the Olympic action, with assistance from Stringer Bill Carroll on the gymnastics events. Ottawa Bureau Chief John Scott covered the political storms that blew up. Most of the color photographs accompanying the cover story were taken by John Zimmerman, a veteran of seven Olympics, and Rich Clarkson, for whom this was the third time around. In New York, Assistant Managing Editor Ray Cave oversaw the story, which was researched...
...James Coco), Sam Diamond (Peter Falk), Dick and Dora Charleston (David Niven and Maggie Smith) and Sidney Wang (Peter Sellers). These, "the world's greatest detectives" have been brought together under one roof at the invitation of Mr. Lionel Twain, a fiendishly eccentric, rich, and rather repulsive murder mystery buff played by none other than Truman Capote. The occasion for this unlikely gathering of slueths is "dinner and a murder," and the opportunity for the egocentric host to demonstrate to his never-before-stumped guests that he too can play their game, and what is more, beat them...