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Stories, memories, reflections about Travolta come back a little like your favorite shirts from the cleaners: well laundered and stiff. Marilu Henner, a former Travolta flame from the Grease road company who is still a close friend, was reminiscing recently about how they would skip down the streets of Manhattan's West Side, making up little street improvisations to play out. One rainy day inspired a fantasy of sinister dealings in a dense London fog. "I'd say to him, 'Is 'e coming?' " Marilu laughs. "And John would look over his shoulder and say, 'No, I don't think...
Such low-altitude flights of humor and fancy would not qualify Travolta to bus dishes at the Algonquin Round Table. That may be the way he wants it. Part of Travolta's success has been sticking close to what he knows and where he comes from...
While the offense tried to get untracked, the Crimson defense of Haywood Miller, Frank Preziozo, Mike Kennedy and Scott Pink kept the game close. "Our defense can play with any attack in the country," claimed goalie Kenny First last night. And against Hopkins, the man who showed that most clearly was Miller. The freshman standout from Baltimore played man-to-man against All-American Mike O'Neil, who won the award as the best attackman in the nation last year. While O'Neil did come up with two goals and three assists, those points were almost exclusively a result...
Harvard, accumulating only 51 points, edged out Boston University and MIT with 54 points apiece in a regatta which remained close in the last race. New England power Tufts followed with 62 points and Boston College, Northeastern and Brandeis rounded out the field...
...improve his material. A random example to the contrary is Henny Youngman, who has used the same jokes since he appeared in vaudeville. Brooks never gives up; in his films he is apparently searching for a better balance between sight gags, one-liners, and developed routines. He has come close before--The Producers, his first film, is one of the funniest movies ever made, and Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein were outrageous parodies of two moribund film genres. But his last film, Silent Movie, was a bomb, although it reflected a willingness to do the unconventional. Silent Movie relied...