Word: decathlon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SEPARATED. Bruce Jenner, 30, Olympic decathlon champion in 1976, now an ABC sports commentator and Wheaties spokesman; and his ex-stewardess wife, Chrystie; after seven years of marriage...
...sequel's producers had virtually no trouble recruiting the cast they wanted. Some prominent athletes-Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson and former U.S.C. Running Back Anthony Davis -volunteered to play minor roles. Cafe Pianist-Singer Bobby Short flew to Los Angeles on a few days' notice to play himself in an early 1960s literary party scene. The biggest coups by far were the casting of James Earl Jones and Marlon Brando. Jones had originally been lined up to play Chicken George in Roots 1. Had he done so, he would not have been usable as Haley in Roots...
BORN. To Bruce Jenner, 29, Olympic decathlon gold medalist of 1976 and television personality, and Chrystie Jenner, 30, former flight attendant: a boy, their first child; in Los Angeles. Name: Burton William. Weight...
...When they told me I was going to make a screen test, I asked if the test would be true-false or multiple choice," recalls the 1976 Olympic decathlon champion Bruce Jenner. So far, Jenner hasn't made it to the movie screen, but he is still high on show business. Lacing on skates instead of running shoes, he sings and cavorts with fellow Olympic Star Dorothy Hamill on her April 28 ABC special. In one sequence he does a James Bond routine and brandishes a smoking umbrella. "He was really a lot of fun to work with...
...Wheaties the breakfasts of champions? Do sports heroes owe their success to a lifetime diet of the cereal? Or is it merely that the folks at General Mills pay the stars to eat their flaky product for the cameras? Those weighty questions were faced squarely last week by Olympic Decathlon Medalist Bruce Tenner, who does commercials for the cereal and whose picture appears on the box. San Francisco District Attorney Joseph Freitas slapped General Mills with a truth-in-advertising suit, charging that Tenner's Wheaties ads falsely imply a causal connection between his taste in breakfast food...