Word: finkel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reversing the usual course, he has already had a major acting role in a motion picture, portraying a persecuted black military cadet in The Lords of Discipline. According to Manager-To-Be Shelly Finkel, a rock-music producer, Breland's future has been plotted along these lines: a gold medal in Los Angeles, five or six lucrative years on the world boxing stage and a subsequent career in the movies. Reportedly, a threeyear, $2 million contract from Paramount Studios has been rejected. But the first trappings of wealth have arrived: cousins. "I have so many cousins these days, they...
...schools buy more computers, they are becoming technologically more sophisticated. Many are insisting that manufacturers provide quality software and such extras as guaranteed service, training and back-up support. Says Leroy Finkel, a computer specialist for the San Mateo, Calif., school system: "From now on, the companies will have to fight and scratch to sell their machines." -By Philip Elmer-DeWitt Reported by Michael Moritz/San Francisco and Adam Zagorin/New York
...musical comedy and Sellon's delivery of the songs bear ugly shades of Caesar's Palace. The writers reach the lowest depths of their lyrical abyss with "Feelin' Good," a number that sounds like it was lifted from some bastardized Porgy and Bess. In a semicomatose performance, Adam Finkel as The Hobo sings "Dragonfly out in the sun/You know what I mean/Butterflies havin' fun/You know what I mean...It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life...
Auerbach's biggest move of the off-season--the acquisition of Robert Parish--is also the most mysterious. The Celtics have never had much luck with seven-footers--their last, Hank Finkel, occupied himself for his last two seasons by coming in with 45 seconds left in close games to try blocking inbound passes...
Ramos seems to be more | than just another ghetto-bred | boxer with the messianic conviction that he will be a champion. He has a magic that seduces. Shelly Finkel, the successful rock promoter, spotted Ramos four years ago. He has shepherded the young fighter since he was 16, and will manage him when he turns pro. Finkel, who promotes people like Olivia Newton-John and Billy Joel and bands like the Who and Yes, says he plans to build Ramos' income outside boxing, "so he can go to university and study acting." Says Finkel: "He is not a gladiator...