Word: lancer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mike McDonough, a Lantana free-lancer, counters by recalling the night he watched an intrepid Brit scale the facade of a hotel in Freeport, the Bahamas, to bang on Howard Hughes' window. "That is the closest anyone ever came ((to Hughes))," he claims proudly. Ace Tab Photog Jimmy Leggett, a wiry Scot, remembers a "scheme to drill a hole down into Hughes' coffin to get a picture of his face." Another plot, in the '60s, involved renting a submarine to surprise Jackie Kennedy and little Caroline yachting in the Mediterranean. Leggett admits with a wink, "Neither plan made it past...
...Henry Hathaway, 86, reliable Hollywood action-movie director who learned the trade from prop boy up and from 1932 crafted more than 60 rousing adventures, big-sky westerns and film noir mysteries that starred some of the screen's greatest names, including Gary Cooper (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, 1935), James Stewart (Call Northside 777, 1948), Tyrone Power (The Black Rose, 1950), James Mason (The Desert Fox, 1951) and John Wayne (True Grit, 1969); in Los Angeles...
...left the Register to strike out as a free-lancer in San Francisco and stringer for Variety magazine, but soon accepted an ofter from the Milwaukee Journal to be a general assignment reporter...
Nevertheless, Watt rebelled against the idea of a professional career in music. Although she admits that she was at one time good enough on the violin to have become a free-lancer or orchestra player, the thought of entering the "rat-race" of professional music seemed to her to run contrary to the whole spirit of music-making...