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Political and military leaders must "compromise between moral and practical behavior," Motta Gur, former chief of staff of the Israeli Armed Forces, told about 150 people in Emerson 108 yesterday...
...Niro means "busy" as in "workaholic." Well before shooting The Deer Hunter, he was doing roadwork and punching bags in preparation for his role in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull, a film about Fighter Jake La Motta to be shot next year. For The Deer Hunter, the story of a friendship among five steelworkers that is interrupted by the Viet Nam War, he spent six weeks tramping about in the Ohio River Valley, talking with mill hands and recording their speech patterns, drinking with them in bars and eating dinner in their homes. If it were possible, De Niro...
...very perfection long kept him from popularity. Not until he was close to the end of his career did he fire the imagination of the fans, who always like a slugger better than a boxing perfectionist. Beaten once on points by Jake La-Motta (in the second of their six matches), Robinson lost his second bout and his middleweight championship to Britain's Randy Turpin in 1951. Some 60,000 turned up at the Polo Grounds for the rematch, the first really big gate Robinson ever attracted. Battered and bleeding, his timing way off, Robinson made a dramatic tenth...
...average Phonevision picture was seen by 25% of the potential audience. Variations ranged from a top of 60% to a low of 8% one evening when the "free" TV competition was the Robinson-La Motta fight. Most popular film of the experimental series: Bing Crosby's 1947 comedy, Welcome Stranger. Least popular: a 1947 comedy, Undercover Maisie...
...title by scoring a technical knockout over Jake La Motta in the 13th round of their scheduled 15 rounder in Chicago last night. Robinson vacates the Welterweight title by winning the Middleweight championship...