Word: making
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passengers hostage for $70 million in ransom. Like Jones, Dunleavy is said to be charismatic, sexy and demonic, but ABC is too smart to cast the role with an actor who might offend a Nielsen family. Instead, Dunleavy is played by Telly Savalas, whose bland manner and leisure suits make him seem more like a Las Vegas maitre d' than a satanic killer...
...after always being a god dess or running around with somebody's cut-off head"). She will sing it for the first time in the U.S. next fall, with the San Francisco Opera. After that? Her one concession to the advancing years is that she is reluctant to make commitments very far ahead. "When managers ask me, I say I'd like to do such and such, provided I still have a voice," she says...
...like to be in charge of that effort." says Fouts, who receives an estimated $200,000 a year for his efforts. "There is nothing like a nice, long 80-yd. drive for a touch-down," Fouts continues: then, remembering six frustrating years with the Chargers, he adds: "Make that a winning touchdown...
Though produced by the rock group The Who and named after one of their albums, Quadrophenia is not a concert film. The band members do not appear in the movie as performers but turn up only in the background score and occasional still photographs. Rather than make a safe companion piece to the film version of Tommy, The Who have daringly cross-fertilized American Graffiti with Look Back in Anger...
...mods, a loose, nationwide gang of motorbike dandies that sprang up with the Mersey sound. As the talented director Franc Roddam follows Jimmy and his cronies around, we watch a society being born. When The Who's pivotal song. My Generation, flips on at a boozy make-out party, the kids forsake their '50s dance steps for the tribal free-for-all that would typify the '60s. When the mods brawl noisily with their rivals, the blue-collar rockers, a malevolent conflict becomes a liberating, if vandalistic rock riot. Roddam understands that the passions of the time...