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...silver medal in the springboard and a bronze in the 100-m backstroke. (She still has medal certificates signed personally by Baron Pierre de Coubertin.) Those were the Games later dramatized in Chariots of Fire, a movie to which Aileen takes great exception. "They did a grave injustice to Charley Paddock, the sprinter who became a dear friend. They portrayed him as a skinny fellow of few words. Why, he was powerfully built, and he could talk the ears off the Prince of Wales...
...rest of the cast is capable but unable to transcend its status as one-dimensional narrative tools. John Speredakos as Happy, David Brummel as Charley, Bill Kaux as Howard Wagner, Spike McClure as Bernard and Ron Parady as Uncle Ben, all play their roles competently--no scene-stealers here...
...kilos of crack and cocaine powder worth well in excess of $10 million on the street. And Q's network, according to the FBI, is only one of perhaps a hundred more in operation. They emanate from Los Angeles' increasingly expansionist gangland. Says FBI special agent-in- charge Charley Parsons in Los Angeles: ``The gangs are literally franchising themselves...
...college student in 1913's The Misleading Lady to the rethinking of his 1955 box-office smash Damn Yankees for its current revival. In between were well over 100 productions in which George Abbott was named somewhere in the program, including a succession of bona fide classics: Where's Charley?, Wonderful Town, The Pajama Game, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Pal Joey. All of them were marked by what came to be known as the "Abbott touch," which eschewed psychological depth for a seamless, balletically precise progression of word, movement, song and stagecraft...
...death scene for each of the heroes. The novel's true subject, to the lighthearted extent that it has one, is mythology itself. With the headline-hungry FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover promoting Floyd to No. 2 and then No. 1 on his new invention, the Most Wanted List, Charley's life becomes a legend before he is finished living...