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...everyone is Tutillated by the city's lighthearted approach. Especially not Jake DiMaggio. His acquaintance with Egyptian authorities (through his construction company's work there) helped land the exhibit for New Orleans. Now he is red-faced over the blue street and the sideshows. "The civic and cultural leaders are ridiculing the Egyptian deity," he complains. "Why can't we do something with a little class...
...guileful art dealer, a slithery lawyer, a glittering female collector of celebrities, a vacant former model who is Maitland's widow, and so on. All of these art lovers are very covetous indeed. The most appealing, though not necessarily the most villainous, is a brilliantly facile painter named Jake Dukker, who has profitably latched on to every new art fad in the past 20 years. Says someone of Dukker: "If the Hudson River School ever comes back into style, Jake will be sitting out there on the Palisades, painting the river and trees and clouds and Indians in canoes...
...Jake Dukker is easy to detect as a likable fraud. But a likely candidate for the murder is more difficult to find. The vote here was for Delaney's cute wife, but it was wrong...
...Niro means "busy" as in "workaholic." Well before shooting The Deer Hunter, he was doing roadwork and punching bags in preparation for his role in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull, a film about Fighter Jake La Motta to be shot next year. For The Deer Hunter, the story of a friendship among five steelworkers that is interrupted by the Viet Nam War, he spent six weeks tramping about in the Ohio River Valley, talking with mill hands and recording their speech patterns, drinking with them in bars and eating dinner in their homes. If it were possible, De Niro...
...slumping Carew makes plans to bunt even as he drives to the ballpark. His technique is far more effective than the superstitious rites of old. The Yankees' Jake Powell, operating in the '30s on the then widely held belief that finding a hairpin brought base hits, once followed a woman for three miles after noticing that a large bone pin in her hair was loose. When it finally fell, Powell scooped it up, rushed to the park and -confidence restored-tripled his first time up. Al Lopez, who was a National League catcher...