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...race frisky with 16 three-year-olds: 14 confessed drug users (of one kind or the other lately permissible), a British chestnut addicted only to Guinness Stout (a pint a day with his oats and carrots) and that California fresh-air fiend Ferdinand. For all of his clean living, Ferdinand drew the dreaded rail, and the pinch at the start of the stampede was so precariously tight that Shoemaker had to stand virtually straight up in the irons. With every one of his 96 lbs., he yanked in the reins magnificently to hold Ferdinand on the course. They settled down...
...custom-made bodice. In the 12-hr. pre- Civil War saga North and South, scheduled to air on ABC in early November, British-born Down, 31, plays the refined daughter of a Louisiana Frenchman who marries a man she does not love. "He turns out to be a fiend," says Down, who draws no parallels to her ongoing real-life divorce from Director William Friedkin. Meanwhile, Down has fallen for the film's Charleston, S.C., location, where she is now working on a sequel. "I love it," she says. "It's beautiful and the people are divine. I think...
Kristofferson writes and performs several driving good time tunes here, but his charm is most impressive in the casualness with which he delivers such lines as "The only reason I drink is so that people won't think I'm a dope fiend." Dillon has mastered the nurturing mother figure and Torn, perhaps the most flexible film actor around, fully mines this caricature of unprincipled greed. The rest of the cast seems to be a merry bunch of natural role-players and con men; the rare awkward line is pardonable...
...marry the dashing actor James Tyrone--the aspirations of becoming a nun or a concert pianist, the niceties of the settled home life she has always craved. She blames herself for bringing Edmund, a sickly baby, into the world, and for disgracing her family by being a "dope fiend...
Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend! Is it more sin to wish Holy Cross thus forsworn, or to dispraise Harvard with that same tongue which I hath prais'd it with above compare so may thousand times? Go, predictions, thou and my school spirit henceforth shall be twain...