Word: luke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unkindly, Shula commended "whoever managed to get Riggins in the right frame of mind," Gibbs presumably. And Riggins concurred, "I 'got my mind right,' as Cool Hand Luke said." Football players who choose Cool Hand Luke as a role model seldom carry teams to the Super Bowl, but this is a rare time in Washington, where the Redskins had not boasted a world championship for 40 years. The players, Hogs (offensive linemen) and Smurfs (miniature receivers) alike, reacted as calmly as anyone who has been personally welcomed home by the President of the United States, though citizens...
...this be so? Are you telling us that Newman, old Cool Hand Luke, old Hud, old Butch Cassidy, old smoothie Henry Gondoroff from The Sting, is really a salad-dressing manufacturer? Yes, but we'll get back to that. The title and credits are ready to roll, and our soggy opening scene is still unresolved. What's going on? The facelike apparition turns out to be a face indeed, that of Newman himself. He has just finished plunging his muzzle into ice water, a ritual of his that, it is said, accounts for much of his eerie youthfulness...
Cool Hand Luke (1967): I had great fun with that part. I liked that...
WHEN CHIEF VILLAIN Darth Vadar managed to escape Luke Skywalker's Force-Ful onslaught in the closing minutes of Star Wars, you just knew that George Lucas was keeping the door open for a sequel. When Rocky ended with hero Sly Stallone losing a close one to the champ, you knew he'd come back itching for a rematch. But when George and Kathy Lutz scrambled from their collapsing haunted home before the credits rolled up for The Amityville Horror, you thought the chances for an Amityville Horror II crumbled right along with that dreadful over-spooked mansion...
...Luke, I have taught you many things, my boy. Don't tell shaggy Wookie stories, for one thing. Also, always be on the lookout for a hot book property. While you were off chasing Princess Leia, Rusty Miller, 12, a junior high school student in Satellite Beach, Fla., came up with The Jedi Master's Quizbook, a compilation of 425 intergalactic questions that will have Yoda himself scratching his noggin. After seeing Star Wars five times and The Empire Strikes Back six, young Master Rusty spent three months compiling his collection, which his mother typed up. George Lucas...