Word: felix
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...headlines and will tune out no matter how many kids approach the starting line. "I acknowledge this reality," says Craig Masback, CEO of U.S.A. Track and Field. "And I accept it." So Masback just needs Crawford and Gatlin to win medals in both sprints, then win their relays. And Felix to take the gold in the 200 m, with her smiling, stunning face a reminder of what Jones used to be. And for Stevenson to dance his way to an even higher world mark. Then he needs them and the other 110 U.S. track-and-field athletes in Greece...
...Squad Actor Tony Randall, who died last month [MILESTONES, May 31], had a long stage and film career, but his defining role, as we noted, was portraying the fastidiously neat Felix Unger in the 1970s TV sitcom The Odd Couple. Shortly after the show made its debut, TIME gave it an enthusiastic review...
...stars' prime concern has been to avoid defamation of characters ... Randall can play Felix almost by reflex action. The big problem is to keep the series' scriptwriters from turning the neurasthenic homemaker into a Mr. Belvedere, a kind of prissy know-it-all. 'I must remain a kind of male Jewish mother, manipulating others as hysterical people do,' says Randall. Fans should not be misled by ... his nutball performances on TV talk shows. Tony Randall is a serious actor whose dream is to wind up in a good repertory company...
...Felix Unger role gave Tony a kind of recognition he liked. But he hated when people asked him if, like Felix, he was really neat. He'd get very sarcastic and say, "Oh, what a wonderful question!" Of course, the answer is no. But Tony was one of those guys who could buy a pair of pants for $2 and they would look like they came from Brooks Brothers. Whereas if I bought pants at Brooks Brothers, they would look like they cost $2. Whatever refinement I have was placed there by Tony...
...Tony resented the Felix Unger label, it was because he had done so many other things. His dream was to bring good, classic theater to America through repertory companies. He was outraged that it was not subsidized by the government. He said he would set up the National Actors Theater in New York, and nobody believed him, including me. And by God, he did it. He was like Don Quixote fighting the windmills, and thank God he did. During his last few years, he was the happiest actor I ever knew...