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Midas Touch. Balanchine did go to the United States, though. The first Balanchine-Kirstein company, the American Ballet, went broke while on tour in Scranton, Pa., in 1935. Thanks partly to some fast lobbying by Kirstein, the troupe was taken on as the ballet wing of the Metropolitan Opera. Three...
Hooker, 43, the man who replaces Granatelli, has a kind of Midas-in-reverse track record. Almost all of his business enterprises-including Minnie Pearl's Chicken System, Mahalia Jackson's Chicken System and the Royal Castle fast-food operation in Miami-have been unsuccessful. Southern aristocrat, he...
The bare bones of the story are familiar, and, once into it, almost predictable. Lenny (Charles Grodin), a nice Jewish guy, marries Lila (Jeannie), a nice Jewish girl, to the strains of that old piano favorite, "I'd like to buy the world a Coke..." On the trip from New...
Immobile in his special hammock, fed through tubes and benevolently cared for, he receives only a few close visitors. Kepesh is the ideal erogenous zone. In addition to having some sort of organs of speech and hearing, the Breast is capable of unlimited sexual excitement. Nurses massage it; the girl...
His name is Gordon Mills, but it might as well be Midas. In the mid-1960s he transformed a pigtailed Welsh rock belter, Tommy Scott, into the tuxedoed dandy whom the international pop world now knows as Tom Jones (the nom de chanson capitalized on the then-popular movie). Two...