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Eddie (Albert Finney) hums a lot of '50s rock 'n' roll, and the closest he has got to Vegas is a workingman's club in Liverpool, where he works as a bingo caller and occasional stand-up comic, telling what might be called shaggy canary stories to the appreciative customers. As for The Maltese Falcon, Eddie isn't so much interested in writing it as living...
...first appearance with the National Theatre was in a production of "Much Ado About Nothing." "I just walked on and waked off. The real stars were Maggie Smith and Albert Finney." More importantly for York's film career, Franco Zeffirelli was the director. Zeffirelli gave York his first screen role in the bawdy "The Taming of the Shrew." Film critics began to sit up and take notice. Although he had graduated Oxford. York was now enrolled at the University of Renaissance Padua: be played the student who woos Bianca. His cinema reputation as the young academic had begun...
Today the bidding jumps at the rate of $150 per second, often to six figures. Humphrey Finney has passed the company presidency on to his son John. The new $500,000 pavilion, used but one week a year, features more than a thousand cushioned chairs, an art exhibit, and closed-circuit television inside and out. Still, the sales at Saratoga -American racing's most traditional and posh resort-are essentially unchanged since that evening in 1918 when Samuel Riddle bid up to $5,000 for a handsome chestnut colt. They named him Man O' War, and Fasig-Tipton...
...impressive track records. But for every Derby winner (the Saratoga sales have produced four), there are many high-priced yearlings-Bold Discovery ($200,000), Love of Learning ($225,000) -who went on to undistinguished racing careers. "We are selling athletes by the standards of a beauty contest," says John Finney. "It's roughly equivalent to a pro football team drafting 13-year-old players...
...egalitarianism of betting windows on track or off, the owning of first-class thoroughbreds remains the province of the rich. John Finney says that he would advise a newcomer with only half a million dollars to spend to avoid the Saratoga sales and get his feet wet at cheaper auctions later in the year. And he confides: "What we're dealing in is a very elegant crap-shooting game. What passes for wisdom in it depends on what you can shoot for and still be prepared to lose...