Word: fernando
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Father or the raw, aggressive one in Connection? Answer: A little of both. Hackman retains much of the flavor of his small-town upbringing in Danville, Ill. Away from the set he spends most of his time lazing with his family in his Tudor-style home in the San Fernando Valley. At the same time, he has "an affinity for certain dangers." These used to include motorcycle and auto racing (he did about half of his own stunt driving in Connection), but now are limited mostly to flying rented planes...
...then, if he stays for a while, the newcomer gradually comes to look forward to going off across town, to the rolling barrios of East L.A., on up through brown hills to green Santa Barbara, knifing through the Santa Monica mountains into the flat maze of the San Fernando Valley, zipping across orange groves to San Bernardino...
...housing boom is still lifting sales of furniture and appliances in much of the country, notably the Midwest. But in California, where a slowdown in housing starts has been predicted, San Fernando Furniture Galleries Manager Chet Steinman reports that "people are not separating themselves from their money because they are not sure of the economic policy of the country...
...Alpert, who recently returned from a trip to Chile, will speak on the revolution in that country with Fernando Leiva, a Chilean student, and Andy Zimbalist, a graduate student at Harvard, tonight at the Union Ballroom, Boston University Student Center...
...comic-book expletives. POW!, ZOWIE! The film has all the depth of a mud puddle, but Director William Friedkin (The Night They Raided Minsky's) sets such a frantic pace that there is hardly a chance to notice, much less care. The connection is a French businessman (Fernando Rey) who arrives in New York City with a multimillion-dollar shipment of high-grade heroin stashed underneath a car door. By dumb luck, a couple of tough narcs get onto the deal and chase "Frog 1" and his friends all around the town, turning New York into Gun City...