Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When it came to 1987, I picked the underdog-slash-Mets vanquisher--and though I was too nervous to watch Kirk Gibson (and hence missed his titanic blow during a fidgety channel-change), the memory lingers with all the resonance of having been in Dodger Stadium myself...
...Kirk Douglas plays a French colonel who must stand as defense counsel for three of his men after they are made scapegoats for a French military defeat. He's up against a snooty general (George MacReady) worried about preserving his good name, a prosecuting attorney (Richard Anderson) who actually raises a pointed finger to the heavens and shouts. "Find the accused guilty!" and a cast of sycophantic French civil servants. Douglas and most of the other actors have chosen to go for the grim, I'm-so-shaken-by-the-horrors-of-war-that-I-speak-in-a-monotone-without...
Nonfiction books generally fare better. Listening to a celebrity read his or her own autobiography -- Kirk Douglas' The Ragman's Son, say -- is little different from sitting through a long, entertaining talk-show appearance. David McCullough's 1,117-page Truman is necessarily truncated in its six-hour audio adaptation. But as narrated by McCullough (who performed the same service for TV's The Civil War), it is a pleasure...
...summer. (Can you imagine Dwight Gooden living with you?) Fans at Wahconah this season get an added bonus -- an opportunity to chat with the member of the Presley family who, in Pittsfield at least, is the second best known after Elvis. That would be the King's third cousin Kirk, 18, a right-handed pitcher whose sizzling fastball usually sends opposing batters skulking back to Heartbreak Hotel...
Edgar Sr. blazed a path for his son in another way: investing in show business. He tried gaining control of Paramount but lost, then bought a big block of MGM and actually became chairman in 1969, only to resign after Kirk Kerkorian took over the company. Bronfman continued, however, to back Broadway shows (one was 1776) and motion pictures. In 1970 Edgar Jr., then 14, found a script on a table of the family's New York City apartment and talked his father into bankrolling Melody, a movie based on that script. He skipped summer camp and went to London...