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...most impressive thing about The Blues Brothers is its numbers: a budget in the $30 million-$38 million range, a cast of 91, a crew of 191, a stunt team of 78, and the cooperation of nearly every able-bodied Chicagoan except Dave Kingman. Elwood (Aykroyd) and Joliet Jake (Belushi) are out to reunite their band and raise enough money to keep their old parochial school open-and to do it they are willing to turn the Second City into an Indy 500 junkyard. Too rarely, the movie relaxes to let some fine rhythm-and-blues artists (James Brown, Aretha...
...decided on the directions his life would take. "I started getting things together in my mind," he told a reporter 20 years later, "and decided that I wanted to teach." Interested in returning to the West Coast, Bok consulted friends at Harvard Law. Under the influence of longtime friend Kingman Brewster Jr., later to become President of Yale and the man many compared to Bok, he found himself lured back to Cambridge. Now, Bok says that although he has been forced to let labor law go, he retains a particular interest in intellectual and academic questions. "Without knowing...
CHICAGO CUBS--Dave Kingman has developed into a complete ballplayer in every respect but one--he can't pitch. Neither can anyone else on this team. Fifth...
...Dave Kingman going to hit a baseball into orbit...
...Ambassador to London Kingman Brewster believes that envoys in this era could actually be more rather than less useful, mostly because they can pro vide "real perspective" and "not just the flash-flash, bang-bang, instant short focus on every dramatic event." Although Brewster favors selective summitry, he argues that only diplomats on the scene can provide the "accurate perceptions" and "nuance and detail" that are essential to the summit participants...