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When I picked the Dodgers to win the National League pennant last spring, I take it you all went out and bet heavily on them. So you'll no doubt be chagrined to hear that that bum O'Malley hasn't seen fit to recognize my loyality by sending me World Series press credentials. I'm deeply hurt...
Moxie & Malarky. NBC's I Spy also succeeds, in part because it turns its back on the Fleming flammery, makes a hip thriller out of two CIA types touring the world as a tennis bum (Robert Culp) and his Oxford-educated Negro trainer (Bill Cosby). For all its stereotyped gunplay, the production has a style to which TV audiences should hope to become accustomed: lavish locations (Hong Kong in color for the first eight episodes), virtually choreographed direction, a swinging score, and a cant-and-cliché-free script, for which Culp doubled as author...
...amiable, boozy doctor in a movie remake of Stagecoach, Bing bunked down at the Caribou Country Club and Ranch near Nederland, Colo., made some scenes for the horse opera, fished for rainbow trout with his son Harry, 7, and mused happily: "I look a bit like a Skid Row bum...
...feel that mosquito bites, muscular aches and sunburn will arouse your sympathy." They stuffed the note into a recently emptied bourbon bottle and dropped it offshore near Lynda's camp. "We knew their camp was dry," recalls Toni. "One of the National Geographic photographers had been around to bum a drink, and we thought we'd give them a laugh. We never thought she'd come over...
...Heartburn. A hulking, hardhanded man with a severe Stalin-style mustache, Gorky is best remembered for his grinding portraits of working-class life in the years immediately preceding the Russian Revolution. His plays and stories then could deal freely with the down-and-outers: barefoot bosyaki (hoboes) on the bum along Russia's great rivers; whores and thieves snarling "Ekh!" at one another in the dank cellars of Moscow; Lumpenproletariat in shiny leather jackets and dull despair. Gorky seemed a sort of Hemingway with heartburn...