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...drug which figured in this first disqualification in Derby history was Phenylbutazone, which, ironically, is as far from the "dope" that the Record American immediately labelled it, as owner Peter Fuller '46 is from Mafia leader Raymond Patriarcha. "Bute" is the equine equivalent of aspirin, a simple pain-killer which is widely used by veterinarians and has no stimulating effects. Its use was legal until several years...
...second question, now irrelevant but still tantalizing, is whether without the "bute", Dancer's Image could still have mustered his stretch charge against the 2-to-1 favorite Forward Pass, who now receives the trophy, the $122,600, and the shot at the Triple Crown. Dancer's Image has been bothered all his life with sore ankles, and if the "bute" did anything, it alleviated the pain which might have prevented him from giving his best effort...
...Boston Strangler is being shot with multiple images. One scene shows at the left an elderly woman watching TV; at bottom center, a detective interviews a witness; on the right, the strangler drives his car slowly through the streets to the elderly woman's house. Mary Ellen Bute's adaptation of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth will employ a wide screen, occasionally fragmented into a honeycomb of separate actions...
FINNEGANS WAKE. A surprising number of James Joyce's Eire-borne visions survive in the screenwriter's version of the screedwriter's novel, thanks to Director Mary Ellen Bute's audacious dream sequences and witty collages and montages...
FINNEGANS WAKE. American Producer-Director-Scenarist Mary Ellen Bute, 60, has made a brave effort to translate James Joyce's monumental work, and does remarkably well within the confines of 94 minutes...