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...most impressive thing about The Blues Brothers is its numbers: a budget in the $30 million-$38 million range, a cast of 91, a crew of 191, a stunt team of 78, and the cooperation of nearly every able-bodied Chicagoan except Dave Kingman. Elwood (Aykroyd) and Joliet Jake (Belushi) are out to reunite their band and raise enough money to keep their old parochial school open-and to do it they are willing to turn the Second City into an Indy 500 junkyard. Too rarely, the movie relaxes to let some fine rhythm-and-blues artists (James Brown, Aretha...
MARRIAGE REVEALED. John Paul Stevens, 60, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by President Gerald Ford in 1975 to fill the seat long held by the late William O. Douglas; and Maryan Mulholland Simon, 48, like the judge a former Chicagoan; both for the second time; at an undisclosed location in Virginia; on Dec. 1, 1979. Stevens, a lawyer who in 1970 was named to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, was divorced last year from Elizabeth Sheeren Stevens, his wife of 37 years and mother of his four children...
...most painless places to live are those where the rise in prices has been more than matched by the rise in incomes. It takes a Chicagoan just 75¼ hours to earn enough to buy the survey's basket of goods and services. For the same items, a Londoner must work twice as long. Prices for a great many things are simply lower in the U.S. than they are elsewhere. For instance, a cartful of 39 supermarket items that costs $135 in Los Angeles and $172 in New York sells for $225 in Zurich and an appalling...
Such vigor dispelled any White House qualms about Klutznick's age. Indeed, the Chicagoan insists that it was he who first brought it up. Says he with a laugh: "If they think I'm competent, who am I to deny...
...head sports the pagan curls of a young Harpo Marx, and his face and body quiver with some of the same nutty, berserk humor. But native Chicagoan Stephen Wade, 26, has a great deal more to offer than that...