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JIMMY is a $900,000 anachronism, a Hollywood notion (courtesy of Jack L. Warner) of what a Broadway musical is like, drearily familiar from countless Hollywood films of Broadway musicals. It takes consummate ineptitude to make Jimmy Walker dull and his mistress, Betty Compton, even duller...
JIMMY is a $900,000 anachronism, a Hollywood notion (courtesy of Jack L. Warner) of what a Broadway musical is like, drearily familiar from countless Hollywood films of Broadway musicals. It takes consummate ineptitude to make Jimmy Walker dull and to make his mistress, Betty Compton, even duller...
...Angeles, works up to 15 hours a week as a consultant to tutors in the school's Educational Opportunities Program, for which he earns $120 a month. He sometimes must borrow bus fare from his professors for the ride back to his home in predominantly Negro Compton, where he often stays up until 4 a.m. to write a novel, poetry and plays expressing the frustrations of a ghetto black. He claims that he can get along on 15 hours of sleep a week. John Gonzales, a journalism major at San Francisco State College, finds that he cannot hold...
Died. Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, 85, British novelist whose 19 books provided an acerbic commentary on the Edwardian era; in London. Dame Ivy cared little for plot and less for scene setting; her regiment-sized casts of disembodied characters came and went like ghosts in a dank country estate. Yet she was a master of dialogue, uncovering the tragicomic foibles of upper-class England in such books as The Mighty and Their Fall and Bullivant and the Lambs...
...field of franchising. Wilt Chamberlain has a Diners Fugazy Travel franchise in Los Angeles, and Lou Brock holds a Dodge dealership in East St. Louis. Retired Celtics Forward Willie Naulls, who now lives in Los Angeles, has a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise and a shopping center in the Watts-Compton area. He plans to open his own chain of Soulville, U.S.A., take-out food stores, which are to be designed along the lines of the shack he lived in as a child in Texas. Brady Keys, a former Pittsburgh Steelers defensive back, is president of "All-Pro Chicken," which...