Word: dinos
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Dean Martin did what he wanted -- drink, screw around, play golf, make a bundle -- with little effort and on his own terms. The son of Italian immigrants, Dino Crocetti learned fast the American genius for appropriation. He swiped somebody else's voice, altered his name twice and his nose once, sold 105% of himself to early investors. He took plenty from everyone and didn't give back much but a kind of low-level radiance. He was a gambler, yes, but even more a dealer; it was the trade he plied as a youth in Ohio gambling joints and later...
...TITLE: DINO...
...Martin's is an exemplary American story: how to succeed without really caring. And America loved the ease with which he held an audience, even if he held it in contempt. But is this an exemplary life? Is Dino worthy of Nick Tosches' big, reckless new book...
...Punter's earlier heroics, however, that provided the most excitement of the meet. In the meet's first race of the day, the mile, Punter locked in a duel with Northeastern's Dino DiBiaso that wasn't settled until the home stretch, Punter put on a late surge to cross the tape in a 4:16.20, just 0.03 seconds ahead of DiBiaso...
...physical deformity as a kind of saint's sackcloth, embellished by Lynch's phantasmagoric direction and anchored by John Hurt's delicate performance as John Merrick, won the director big-studio notice. He could do anything now -- anything but turn Frank Herbert's daunting science fantasy into a movie Dino De Laurentiis would like. "I sold out on Dune," Lynch says today. "I was making it for the producers, not for myself. That's why the right of final cut is crucial. One person has to be the filter for everything. I believe this is a lesson world...