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...seems as if all writers in their subconscious hoped to hell that Frazier would beat Ali. Why? Because as they have said in not so many words, Frazier is an ignorant jackass, the kind of black man they like to have around. For a black man not to have thought about the black movement simply means he is not a "Black Man," but what most whites like...
Perhaps it was the atmosphere of the Ali-Frazier championship fight that prompted an excess of macho in Washington. The news trickled out that during the annual Gridiron Club dinner, an evening of ritual satire offered by the capital's newsmen, House Democratic Whip Hale Boggs, 57, was decked with one punch in a Statler-Hilton men's room by Indiana Republican (and former Congressman) Edward Mitchell, 60, supposedly because he objected to the abusive cracks that Boggs was making about the Nixon Administration...
...rare needle. In his 30 years on Broadway, Cohen has developed an unusually cozy rapport with his stars. He publicizes them lavishly, respects their artistic judgments, and is an all-round problem-solver. When Cohen's 1964 Hamlet, Richard Burton, and his wife wanted tickets to the Frazier-Ali fight, they naturally rang up Alex (he got them a pair, but they didn't go). "How do you treat a star?" asks Alex. "Like a star." That is a little difficult at the Tonys where everyone is a star. He can provide them all with limousines...
Last night's other speakers were Florynce Kennedy, black feminist and lawyer from New York, co-author of the book Abortion Rap; Myrna Hill from the Black and Third World Caucus; and Margaret Benston, a long-time feminist and professor at Simon Frazier University in Vancouver...
What makes Iago evil? Envy, power-lust, money. For that they ripped off Joe Frazier, but it's an old story...