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...Elizabeth Taylor whispering in their pets' ears to go faster neglects the fact of a lot of rough little rogues cursing and beating the horses' rumps with sticks. During Spectacular Bid's stirring three-year-old season (1979), just when Bid's teen-age jockey Ron Franklin was about to be mistaken for Mickey, Franklin hopped down off a gelding named Big Vision one day and kicked him right in the stomach. So much for sentimentality...
...turned to straight acting and won an Oscar nomination (his first) for his performance in The Towering Inferno. And last year he took a wife: Pioneer Jockey Robyn Smith...
...Harold Shintaku, 54, threw out a jury's murder verdict and allowed Defendant Charles K. Stevens, a notorious criminal, to go free. Some 300 people rallied downtown in protest. The judge responded with a 20-page report explaining his action, but the city's most popular disc jockey told his audience: "Shintaku can take that report and shove it up his-nose." Then came news that Judge Shintaku had been found by relatives battered and dazed at his beachfront cottage. After doctors performed brain surgery for three hours and tended to Shintaku's broken collarbone, they predicted...
...town that time forgot and that decades cannot improve," Lake Wobegon was founded only seven years ago by Garrison Keillor, a Minnesota writer and disc jockey. When he was a boy, Keillor, 39, loved the Grand Ole Opry. Now he frets that the Opry has become too much like a big industry and he believes that, despite TV, there is still an audience for a radio variety show, which is what the Opry and dozens of other shows of the '30s and '40s used to be. The producers of Minnesota Public Radio agreed. A Prairie Home Companion...
MARRIED. Mike Love, 40, lead singer for the Beach Boys; and Catherine Linda Martinez, 30, his girlfriend of eight months; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Santa Barbara, Calif. The ceremony was performed by Disc Jockey Wolfman Jack, who was ordained by the Universal Life Church of Modesto, Calif, for the purpose...