Word: muldowney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maybe the robbers stole it while standing on the roof because it was attached near the top of the building," said Patricia Muldowney '84, who works nights at the QRAC reception desk...
CHARTING THE CAREER of world champion race car driver Shirley Muldowney from Schenectady housewife to champ, Heart Like a Wheel evokes expectations of an automotive Breaking Away. No such luck, Director Jonathan Kaplan gets us in the car, but the ride is always too short. We feel a bit like the little kid who puts his only shiny quarter in the plastic horsey, expecting an exhilarating ride but only receiving a few quick, neck-snapping bobs...
...patronizing or chauvinistic comments and behavior. When a fellow racer blows her a kiss before they start a race she confidently gives him the finger. Shirley must concede slightly, however, to help herself get ahead. When she moves to California she puts on shorts and calls herself Cha-Cha Muldowney. Soon, however, she resumes her real name, adamantly claiming her womanhood. When she goes on a cooking show on Canadian T.V. as a special guest and the cook keeps referring to her as Cha-Cha, Shirley," she tells him in front of thousands of viewers. "My name is Shirley...
Heart Like a Wheel. This B-movie biography of Shirley Muldowney, first woman to become a national hot-rod champion, boasts crisp, compassionate direction by Jonathan Kaplan and an Oscar-worthy performance from Bonnie Bedelia...
...format, Heart Like a Wheel occupies the ragged terrain somewhere between old B movies and new TV movies. A blue-collar inspirational, it follows Muldowney from her teen-age nights on New Jersey back roads in the 1950s to her unprecedented third National Hot Rod Association world championship title last year. As with the Mercury space program, drag racing is largely an achievement of the designers and mechanics; the driver is a high-risk passenger who needs guts as much as skill to command a vehicle packing 2,500 h.p. and moving at 250 m.p.h. with a force...