Word: conti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...convert a movie audience-typically composed of individuals lost in private fantasies-into a sports crowd, in which singular preoccupations are submerged in communal joy as the home team is cheered on to a transcendence everyone shares. With Pelé doing wondrous tricks on field, and Bill Conti's huge score blasting away underneath John Huston's superb blending of game action with the stadium's increasingly delirious response to it, Victory achieves its goal. Anyone who does not find himself yelling along with the extras should probably have stayed home with his Proust and bitters...
...Chase, Conti and Keith are one-man bands strutting their magnetic stuff; but it is in ensemble work that the London stage shines. In directing Nicholas Nickleby, Trevor Nunn juggled 43 actors in 138 speaking parts to create the propulsive bustle of Dickens' London. Now he and Choreographer Gillian Lynne have brought an informed anarchy to Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical settings for T.S. Eliot's exercise in whimsy and social satire, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. When it appeared in 1939, Practical Cats comprised 14 poems; Valerie Eliot, the poet's widow...
...NOTEBOOK: Jamie Conti scored six goals to lead the j.v. squad to an 11-2 win in the second game...
...cast is unmanageably large. Some 60 people have to be present for the trial to proceed. Customarily present are Judge Samuel Conti, 58, born and educated in California, reputed to be hard on drug-law violators. He has tried attempted Presidential Assassin Sara Jane Moore and Black Panther David Hilliard. Last February, 4½ months into the Hell's Angels affair, the judge collapsed from exhaustion. Court was recessed as he rested up for two weeks. The prosecution's "Hell's Angels Task Force" sits at a center table: four lawyers and a shifting group of federal...
...people indicted last June, two submitted their cases on stipulated facts and were found guilty by Judge Conti. Some were "turned" into witnesses, some disappeared, and some are to be tried separately. Of the 18 defendants in this popularly named "Hell's Angels trial" only ten are Angels, or former Angels. Eight never joined the club, including the three women defendants who are wives of various defendants...