Word: haddon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...picture breaks down awkwardly when it tries to express directly what it has already said better by implication. This generally occurs in earnest scenes between Elliott and his all too dense girlfriend. Dayle Haddon's inexperienced playing adds nothing even faintly convincing to the badly written love interest, and the rest of the film has to struggle to recover from the resulting dead spots. Still, North Dallas Forty retains enough of the original novel's authenticity to deliver strong, if brutish, entertainment.-Richard Schickel
Predictably, Nolte lays hard to get. He won't fall for just any pink, bouncing bimbo. He goes for a new distant star--Dayle Haddon. The camera "catches" her off to the side, pale, immobile, delicate, profoundly beautiful. And you know that after an appropriately titillating interval, you will see her with her clothes off. Dayle Haddon is the antithesis of the old cheerleaders in sports movies; she's liberated, divorced heiress, she reads books, drinks milk and doesn't like football. She rides horses and spends half her day combing their backsides. But she's just as phony, just...
Walton Brooks McDaniel '93, the College's oldest graduate, died last Saturday in Haddon Heights, N.J. He was 107 years...
...Post its copy of the book? Times Co. officials are astounded that anyone could have, considering the firm's extraordinary steps to prevent such leaks. The manuscript was set in type at Haddon Craftsmen, Inc., in Bloomsburg, Pa., under the eyes of uniformed security guards, on old-fashioned Linotype machines. Their output of hot metal was melted down as soon as it was used. The pages were bound at a Haddon plant in Scranton, also under guard; and finished books were sealed in tough plastic wrappers and then stored in locked trucks and warehouses...
Many investors can ill afford these months of preparation and waiting. Resorts International has laid off 600 employees, 75% of its work force at the Chal-fonte-Haddon Hall Hotel. Some investors may be unable to keep up interest payments on their loans unless gambling gets under way soon. Lenders may withhold additional loans until the first casino -probably Resorts International's entry -has been in operation for at least six months. "And by that time," complains one investor, "Miami may have casinos." Not to mention New York's Catskills and Pennsylvania's Poconos...