Word: midwesterners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next week's voting for California's 271 delegates are huge. The winner in the head-to-head showdown between Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern will be a heavy favorite to grab the nomination in Miami Beach. As the duel between the two longtime friends from neighboring Midwestern states turns personal, the man with all the momentum is McGovern...
...United Artists filmed the movie Cold Turkey (about a Midwestern town that gave up smoking) in Greenfield, Iowa. As a publicity stunt, one-third of the smokers of Greenfield actually gave up cigarettes for 30 days. Their reward: $6,000 from...
...cynicism grew tempered as he grew older. He seemed to yearn for the quiet Midwestern life he had rejected, to want to roll back the years to a more peaceful age--"Wouldn't it be nice not to be famous?" one of his later songs asks, and you hear the voice of the composer behind the question. But the same man who wrote "I'm in love again, and I love, love, love it" also wrote...
...than you'd care to think about). Gill gives us the old, familiar story: the debonair roue, writing At Long Last Love between swoons into unconsciousness while lying pinned under his horse with both legs broken, tiring the second half of his life in agony after the accident. The midwestern kid who made good; the character like Auntie Mame or his own Katie who came east and set the town on its ear, the country on its ear, the world on its ear. But the shocking debauche would do facile little runs around his own end, drop back, and make...
...that Hackman's star status could command a wide range of roles, he plans to keep right on doing character parts. He will play an aging Midwestern dirt racer in Good Luck, Roy Neal, which will start shooting in July. Next he has his eye on a script about a fireman. In another ten years, he maintains, he may quit acting altogether. "I want to relax, paint, read and maybe even write," he says. "I don't see myself as a distinguished old actor." Perhaps not, but if that Marine captain were to turn up again...