Word: hoofers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nationwide chain of dance studios, to national prominence on television's The Arthur Murray Party, a ratings winner in the 1950s, to a seemingly choreographed game of doubles with his wife Kathryn on courts near their Hawaiian home below Diamond Head, the former Broadway hoofer has always kept both feet on the ground. His professional foxtrotting days behind him, although he still takes a turn on the dance floor, Murray may now be the oldest money manager in the U.S. Handling a $15 million portfolio for himself, relatives and friends, Murray has increased his fund by 32% a year...
...will need it all and a good deal more. Comes now the time when the old hoofer's original script has been exhausted, when the newness has faded, when the mischief makers in Washington and the world have sized him up. The procession of events and the demands of his nation have marched beyond anything he had thought about and planned for when he was a lecturing TV celeb and a candidate who could sum the world up with "Let's reduce taxes, strengthen our defense and get the Government out of your hair." Comes now the time...
...corralled estimable talents from all over the world. Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless, Weekend) came from France, Michael Powell (The Red Shoes, Peeping Tom) from England, experimental Film Maker Scott Bartlett from San Francisco and Hoofer Gene Kelly from the heart of Hollywood. He put three films into production on the Zoetrope lot: Hammett, a surreal murder mystery directed by the German Wim Wenders; The Escape Artist, starring Ryan O'Neal's 16-year-old son Griffin; and One from the Heart. By January, Zoetrope had some 500 employees and a $600,000-a-week payroll. Inevitably, Coppola...
...year and recipient of the Swede Nelson award for sports-manship in 1973. Among the records he still holds are most completions and attempts in a game (27-48), as well as completions and attempts in a season(112-209). He punted more than any other Crimson hoofer--149 times...
...years after his "final" screen appearance in One, Two, Three, James Cagney, 81, was back before the cameras last week in Brooklyn, looking spry in the turn-of-the-century waxed mustache and muttonchops of New York City Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo. Said the old hardy hoofer: "The doctors said I should do something to keep me busy...