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HOSPITALIZED. Theresa Saldana, 27, versatile actress who played Jake LaMotta's sister-in-law in Raging Bull; with knife wounds; in Los Angeles. Saldana was stabbed twice in the chest outside her West Hollywood apartment. Police arrested Arthur Jackson, 46, an unemployed Scotsman, and charged him with attempted murder...
...produce 20,000 sandwiches daily, the Lodi, N.J., Chipwich factory has scheduled an increase in output to 200,000 on Oct. 1, and the company is preparing supermarket and cart distribution in Sunbelt states. "It's been one of those American dreams," says Chipwich's creator Richard LaMotta...
...LaMotta's dream is now melting a bit. This summer Good Humor began to sell a Chipwich lookalike, the Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich. Chipwich has filed a $13 million lawsuit against Good Humor in New York Federal District Court, charging unfair competition and trademark infringement. LaMotta claims Good Humor also took unfair advantage of confidential information gleaned last winter when Chipwich explored with Good Humor the possibility that the company would distribute Chipwich in the Northeast...
Good Humor concedes that its sandwich was developed to compete with Chipwich but denies LaMotta's other charges. Says Good Humor Attorney John Young: "It's our product, and we consider it a superior product. Their main complaint would seem to be that they don't want competition...
...combines all the wit and spontaneity and genuineness of a Method actor like Brando with all the craft and attention to detail of an Olivier. You become oblivious to the devices he's using: the way he takes the windmill motion of bodypunching, for example, and turns it into LaMotta's leitmotif. Things that DeNiro did to prepare for the movie--learning boxing well enough to become a good club fighter, for example, or gaining 60 pounds or whatever to play LaMotta in later life--have almost come to be expected of him. In Raging Bull, DeNiro confirms that...