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Such shaky origins apparently do not bother true believers. Actress Julie Newmar is convinced. Jackie Gleason checks his charts before an important engagement, and Gil Brandt, vice president of the Super Bowl-champion Dallas Cowboys, is also convinced that biorhythm "has a lot of validity." There are a growing number of adherents on N.F.L. teams. Minnesota Vikings Player Jim Marshall was intrigued when someone pointed out that his classic wrong-way run for a touchdown in 1964 came on a triple...
...favor for his friend Hal Needham, a stuntman who had the opportunity to direct if he could get Reynolds to star in the picture. The result was a little number called Smokey and the Bandit, nothing much more elaborate than a 90-minute car chase, with Jackie Gleason playing a sheriff in hot, exasperated pursuit of Reynolds' good-ole-boy trucker. The film cost about $4 million. The last time anyone looked, it had grossed about $100 million, second only to the phenomenal Star Wars for 1977. Reynolds' latest picture, Semi-Tough, has been doing business at the rate...
...succeeds where the others fail because Fred Silverman, the network's programming whiz, knows that audiences want to see characters on the tube. The people on ABC are often cartoon figures, but their outlines are filled in by talented and at times magnestic performers. Like Jackie Gleason and Lucille Ball before them, Henry Winkler and Laverne & Shriley's Penny Marshall can transform rampant silliness into laughter...
...have been hurt by rising costs, say the ads will hold down ticket prices. They stand to get up to three-quarters of the loot, and they say they will happily accept commercials-if the public does not protest. "No audience reaction would be favorable audience reaction," says Larry Gleason, executive vice president of the Mann chain, which has 300 houses in 26 states. It sounds like an invitation, doesn...
...weekend, negotiations resumed between shippers and the International Longshoremen's Association amid signs of an early settlement. Employers made a new wage offer; but the major stumbling block remained container shipping's threat to job security. Teddy Gleason, the I.L.A.'s crusty boss, who turned 77 last week, summoned his 130-man wage-scale committee to the new talks, at New York's Downtown Athletic Club, and there were rumors that the shippers were feeling pressures to enable the walkout to end. Any deal, however, would have to be approved by the rank and file...