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...appraising a bout, one criterion for many fans and the fight mob alike is the million-dollar gate. In the long history of boxing, there have been only 15 such matches-all involving heavyweights...
...ENORMITY of it. Thirteen million Super Panavision dollars-it's like trying to describe a million-dollar tinted postcard...
...director could have elicited the look of pride on the veteran actor's face as he hugged his son during a break on the Hollywood set. John Ethan Wayne, 8, had just stolen a scene during the filming of The Million-Dollar Kidnaping in the role of grandson to his real father, John Wayne, 63, and Actress Maureen O'Hara. Said Richard Boone, cast as the leader of the bandits who kidnap the boy: "Duke, you and I know acting's hard, but nobody told the boy-he just went in there...
...Robert Plant calls a "smash-bang-wallop" fashion. After a week's tour of Scandinavia, the group knocked out its first ragged LP in 15 hours. The group's spontaneity and free-floating blues improvisations struck a responsive chord among the young, and the LP became a million-dollar seller...
...Experts thought it was one of the artist's less important works, but I thought it needed cleaning. Even Germany's Doerner Institute labs, which do most of the cleaning for the big European museums, advised me not to touch it for fear of ruining a million-dollar painting. But I decided to take the chance, and sure enough, it was covered with a 50year-old brown tone applied for Prince Harrach of Vienna to make it look older. That was the fashion in those days. When I had it removed, the painting came alive. You could...