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...except that sport is a form of warfare-but 1977 will also be the year of the cinema jock. Rocky will be followed by a flurry of boxing movies: The Greatest, all about, natch, Muhammad Ali, who plays himself; Raging Bull, starring Robert DeNiro as former Middleweight Champ Jake LaMotta; and a comedy called Knockout, in which a clothes designer buys a boxer as a tax shelter. For football fans there is Dan Jenkins' Semi-Tough, which began shooting in Dallas last week, with Kris Kristofferson and Burt Reynolds. Says Jenkins: "The script is really a sequel...
...Orleans. His first big money comes from running whorehouses, though the early jazz-band accompaniments nearly drive his tin ears crazy. Prohibition bootlegging eventually accounts for his real power and fortune. While it must be said that Oliver is not Italian, his partners are called Manzini and Lamotta, and he marries into a thriving Sicilian clan. Gradually, all the standard gangland props are assembled: henchmen, reprisals, shootouts at the warehouse, payoffs and protection rackets. The author even seems to have anticipated the recent caveats of the Italian-American Civil Rights League: the world Mafia is missing. Indeed, when his wife...
...vivid to millions of Frenchmen. A veteran of the Free French navy, the handsome brawler fought his way out of Casablanca to become "l'Immortel." In September 1948, he knocked out Tony Zale in the twelfth round to win the middleweight title. He lost the crown to Jake LaMotta nine months later when he tore a left shoulder muscle in the first round, then gamely fought on virtually one-handed until he was unable to answer the bell for the tenth round. Scheduled for a rematch with LaMotta, the superstitious Cerdan consulted a fortuneteller, had Marcel Jr. spit...
Onetime Middleweight Boxing Champion Jake LaMotta, 34, now a Miami saloonkeeper, drew a six-month jail stretch and a $500 fine on raps of helping a 14-year-old vice doll hustle in his bar and running his joint for a lewd purpose...
...audience rating of Celanese Theater, which this week won a 1952 Peabody Award (see above), has suffered because the show (alternate Weds. 10 p.m., ABC) has played opposite such attractions as the fights between Jake LaMotta & Gene Hairston, Sugar Ray Robinson & Rocky