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...Mafia-controlled union of stagehands to close down production unless the studios paid up. Even so, the dapper, debonair Roselli remained a luminary of sorts in Hollywood. He married a starlet, got a piece of two nightclubs, and helped produce two crime films in the late 1940s, Canyon City and He Walked by Night. Says a producer who knew him at the time...
...wall of water hurtled down the canyon, a wailing and moaning wind preceded it along the Big Thompson. When the water began to rise, Helen Hill, who is in her mid-fifties, scrambled to a perch five limbs up on a ponderosa pine and later that night watched the flood in a series of flickering still lifes illuminated by lightning. "I saw poor Mrs. Greeley-84, she is-go down the river. And I could hear the cabins around us go. They sounded like the lid of a wooden apple box being pried...
When dazed survivors climbed down from trees or ledges on Sunday morning, they found a new canyon; at 30 separate places the Big Thompson had jumped its banks to change course. Hydrologists were equally stunned by the sheer force the flood had generated. Once in 100 years, they had figured, the Big Thompson might be hit by a flood sending 19,000 cu. ft. of water a second through a section called The Narrows at a depth of 12 ft. But the storm that destroyed a vacationland sent 40,000 cu. ft. per sec. through the gap at an incredible...
...Gone. As the rescue work went on, searchers began using German shepherds and bloodhounds to find bodies. Many of the dead were buffeted so hard against rocks and the walls of the canyon that they were stripped of their clothes. Some of the corpses were dismembered, most were bloated and unrecognizable. To make identifications, five dentists and eight FBI fingerprint specialists were called...
...Valerie Perrine, who has been performing her own stunts in a film about a female private eye. It is called Windfall, with the emphasis on fall: jumping from a burning helicopter, Perrine sprained her ankle; in another episode, she was thrown from a horse; on location at the Grand Canyon, she got a bad case of acrophobia and fainted. Fortunately, the perils of Perrine include a few scenes best done lying down. One of her favorites is a phony rape incident, staged to inspire a rescue by Co-Star Terence Hill and eventually some romancing. "I think...