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Alas, poor Rudy: his bad luck with producers and directors extends 50 years beyond the grave. For his life has now fallen into the feverish-not to say hysterical-hands of Ken Russell, a director whose singular style and energy once promised excitement, but which now promise nothing but outrage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rudy II as Rudy I in a Gaudy Bust | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...beliefs. Two years later, he would be captured in a lonely canyon in the Bolivian jungle, his legs shot away, firing his rifle until it was shot out of his hands. Denied medical treatment and tortured, he died, mercifully, the next night. He would be buried in an unmarked grave. In the end, he would not even be such a good soldier--Che was tracked down and killed by 650 Bolivian rangers, especially trained over some four months for the task by United States Green Berets. The manual of guerrilla warfare they used was Che's, written from notes compiled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: With Che in Cambridge | 10/8/1977 | See Source »

EVERYONE KNOWS the story of Dracula: an "undead" creature refuses to lie still in the grave, sustaining himself, between sunset and sunrise, on the blood of innocent mortals. This Anti-Christ dooms his victims to flock in his unearthly host forever; they become "flesh of his flesh." Only herbs or holy objects can ward him off, and only a stake through his heart can end his lecherous career. The story is terrifically titillating: all that sacrilege and perverse sexuality to relish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Necking | 10/1/1977 | See Source »

...believe that he murdered Jack Molinas, 43, a gambling figure and porn-film distributor who was found shot in the head in his Hollywood Hills home in August 1975. The other victim: Vincent Calderazzo, a New York Mafia soldier whose bones were discovered by hikers in a shallow desert grave near Victorville, Calif., in March. Both were killed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fingering a .22-Cal. Killer | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...Bell vice president at Gravitt's funeral warned him not to join the dead man's family in a suit against the company, saying "You file that suit and the Bell employees will hound you to death. That son of a bitch [Gravitt] lies in the grave-you're next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Phone Calls and Philandering | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

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