Word: copacabana
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...Martin had a few early scraps with Clint Courtney, Billy Hunter, Jimmy Piersall, Larry Doby and Roy Campanella, they were as preliminary as Jack Dempsey's first fights under the name Kid Blackie. In the Ring book, Martin's official record begins in 1957 at New York City's Copacabana nightclub, where Yankee Teammates Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Hank Bauer and Johnny Kucks were toasting Martin's 29th birthday at the same time that a Bronx man named Edward Jones was celebrating the end of the bowling season...
...career took off on a different course from Valli's, their fortunes have remained intertwined. Reason: they are still partners despite their professional separation, and they split all income -- whoever earns it -- down the middle. When Gaudio co-produced the music for Manilow's TV special Copacabana, he gave half of his earnings to Valli, who had nothing to do with the show. When Valli headlined a big concert last year at New Jersey's Meadowlands Arena, Gaudio got half the profits even though he was in London producing the sound track for the movie Little Shop of Horrors. Naturally...
...Janeiro, where luxurious, marble-walled apartment houses with rooftop gardens overlooking Ipanema and Copacabana beaches are flanked by squalid hillside shantytowns, crime is on the rise. Armed robbers often overpower apartment doormen at night and wait to ambush residents returning from evening parties. Bandits jump on buses and force passengers to hand over wedding rings and to empty their wallets and even shoes, where some people hide large bills. The rich are becoming fearful and cautious. At an exclusive dinner in São Paulo given for Antonio Gebauer, a senior vice president with New York's Morgan Guaranty...
...Yankees traded him in 1957 after a brawl at New York's Copacabana nightclub. His career rapidly declined, and he wandered through six teams in five years. Then Martin was hired by the Minnesota Twins as a coach in 1965 and became manager four years later...
...America; rather, it is a look at Scorsese's demons, with America serving as a prop. Violence extends beyond the ring to the crowd (where a woman is trampled in the crowd riot) to the church social hall (where drunks are thrown out by bouncers) to the Copacabana (site of a huge brawl) to the kitchen and dinner table. Cathy Moriarty, stunning in her debut as LaMotta's wife Vicki, is as beautiful, in her way, as Taxi Driver's Cybill Shepard; but for the pristine campaign worker, Scorsese has substituted a passive, pliable coital robot. And it all ends...