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...periodic "bracket" races on all the tracks, entrants are classed as A, B, C or D drivers according to their best average times (none slower than 62.00). Winners in each class get up to $100 in prizes. Inevitably, in Southern California, the sport attracts non-track stars, notably James Garner, Connie Stevens, Flip Wilson (he didn't flip), David Cassidy and sundry rockers, who to date have won no prizes. Henry ("the Fonz") Winkler went off the track on his first lap. But the best customers, the Malibu managers maintain, are the nonfamous people like the 42-year...
...last year" feeling that coaches are usually allowed after a sub-par season. Park, who had finished his first below-.500 campaign in eight years as head coach, went into his ninth closely watched by critics who deemed it necessary to malign the man when his team failed to garner any post-season honors for the first time since Park succeeded Norm Shepard...
Elesina Dart is the dark lady. Well-born, though only moderately wealthy, Elesina is a twice-divorced, hard-drinking rebellious actress in her early '30s when she meets social climber Ivy Trask. Ivy is a homely fashion editor whose shrewdness and harshness eventually garner her more than grace and beauty alone would have. Elesina becomes Ivy's protegee, or more accurately, her obsession, and together they fabricate the credentials necessary to enter the upper echelons of New York society. Ivy becomes an unwanted but tolerated member of the select world but Elesina, after her dramatic and scandalous entrance, becomes first...
Travis Hudson makes the most of Lulu, a veteran vaudevillian of hearty humor, whom she turns into an amusing cross between Mae West and Patsy Kelly. She has fun with the low range of "My Husband's First Wife," and the perky syncopations of "Naughty Boy." She and Jay Garner (as Lulu's flashily dressed husband and partner), aided by a pair of tambourines, go to town on "I'd Leave My Happy Home For You," another older piece that Kern interpolated in this show. As their mousy but well-to-do cousin Rupert, John Remme is especially comical when...
...harvest of Roots has yet to make Author Alex Haley feel relaxed. Though he will garner at least $5 million from his book, Haley's comet is sputtering. He is dead tired. He has been out on the lecture circuit or visiting Gambia or receiving honorary degrees almost every day of the month. As for his megabucks, Haley says that so far they have enabled him only to get out of debt-a feat that might in itself rank as the differentiating factor between the rich and the merely upwardly mobile...