Word: manhattan
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...never seem quite right in a thriller. Yet at 68, Laurence Olivier is again swapping the stage for the cinema and co-starring with Dustin Hoffman in Paramount's forthcoming spy flick, Marathon Man. Olivier plays the part of a professional assassin and is scheduled to sprint about Manhattan next month in the filming of a chase scene. Such sprightly plans are rather extraordinary for a man who has been fighting a long battle against cancer of the prostate, thrombosis and other serious ailments. Confided Olivier optimistically to a friend last summer: "I am going through an extremely tricksy...
Brownmiller lives alone in an "early bourgeois" Greenwich Village apartment, leads a spartan, work-centered life and has no hobbies. A native of Brooklyn, Brownmiller attended Cornell, leaving before graduation to study acting in Manhattan. She appeared in two off-Broadway plays and worked as a Newsweek researcher. Studying nights at the Jefferson School of Social Science, she took a course taught by Herbert Aptheker, the American Communist historian and specialist in Southern studies. In the historian's thunderous lectures on white exploitation of Southern blacks, including the abuse of black women, Brownmiller recalls, "I heard for the first...
Before each game, New York Jets Quarterback Joe Namath finds a quiet spot and seems to nod off. In the middle of a gale on Long Island Sound, while her friends are wrestling with lines and sails, Wendy Sherman, a Manhattan adwoman, slips to the bow of a 36-ft. yawl, makes herself as comfortable as she can, and closes her eyes. On warm afternoons in Rome, Ga., Municipal Court Judge Gary Hamilton and his wife Virginia can be found on their screened porch, apparently dozing. It is not a compulsion to sleep that these and perhaps 600,000 other...
Died. Robert Bernard (Bob) Considine, 68, one of the best-known U.S. newspapermen and author of numerous books and movie scripts; following a stroke; in Manhattan. Considine began his journalistic career as a sports reporter in 1930 and by 1933 had begun writing his wide-ranging "On the Line" column. Associated with the Hearst publishing empire since 1937, he covered major news events for nearly 40 years. On the side, he wrote movie scripts (The Babe Ruth Story) and biographies of such friends as Jack Dempsey and General Douglas Mac Arthur...
Died. Max Wylie, 71, writer, former television and advertising executive and father of Janice Wylie, a 21-year-old Newsweek copy girl whose murder in 1963 in an affluent Manhattan neighborhood received wide publicity and led to a famous mistaken identity trial; by his own hand, of a gunshot wound; in Fredericksburg, Va. Although Wylie, the younger brother of the late novelist Philip Wylie, wrote a number of mediocre novels and other works, none of his literary efforts brought him as much public exposure as the overwhelming amount of misfortune he encountered. Five years after the murder of his daughter...