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Every time a batter gets a hit off Andy Messersmith or any other million-dollar pitcher, he should be given a raise simply because a million-dollar pitcher should be unhittable...
Andy Messersmith's new employer may have something to learn about baseball, but he is already an expert on winning. After inheriting his father's outdoor billboard agency when he was 24, Turner built it into a million-dollar communications business, with TV stations in Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C. that mainly broadcast syndicated shows, sports events and movies. He also races sailboats well enough to have been named Yachtsman of the Year in 1970 and 1973, and to have skippered Mariner in the 1974 America's Cup trials. "I'd rather sink than lose...
Interesting that Lipstick, starring fashion mannequin Margaux Hemingway, has been released in the same month that Hemingway signed a million-dollar contract with Faberge to promote a new perfume called "Babe." In the movie, Hemingway plays herself--a rangy blonde beast with innocent eyes and a loose smile. In the "Babe" ads, she lies snuggled in a tuxedoed gentleman's arms as they float on a tire-raft on some cool body of water in the dusk. Both media peddle the same image--Babe, at once the child and the temptress, the pampered, beautiful, single woman who's rich enough...
...course it is impossible to have a couple of $200-a-week legmen impersonated by million-dollar movie stars, their images blown up to gigantic proportions on the nation's screens, without a certain amount of inevitable idealization taking place, both of the models and their trade. But, as Ben Bradlee has observed, "the irony of Watergate is that Richard Nixon made us all famous?the people he most despised. He made us mini-household words, and in the case of Woodward and Bernstein, real folk heroes." (Well, sort of.) The moviemakers were particularly on guard against showing the "Woodstein...
...million discs apiece. He has leased his old hits for five years to a golden-oldie outfit called American International. The deal is likely to bring him half a million in royalties. Residuals from the Tonight Show theme, which he wrote in 1962, yield $30,000 a year. For $50,000 against royalties, Anka cut Kodak's advertising jingle, The Times of Your Life. Now Paul and the jingle are rising on the pop charts as well. This Christmas he is opening his own auberge, Chez Paul, in Sun Valley. Next May he will open a million-dollar discotheque...