Word: neils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to uncommittedly walk a tightrope on the busing issue, protecting himself with a net of double-talking and triple-talking aides below? Why, in the city of the Adamses and co. is the City Council filled with the likes of Hicks and anti-everything councilman Albert "Dapper" O'Neil, a man who openly brags about the handgun he packs, whose reactionary voting record a native Bostonian friend of mine calls "one bizarre package," and who himself until recently referred to Hicks...
...joined by a loose freemasonry of friends, rivals and fellow speed freaks. Among them: a libidinous Italian race driver (Raul Julia), a Pennsylvania housewife (Susan Flannery), a crazed motorcyclist (Harvey Jason), even a mechanic and his obstreperous girl friend (nicely played by Lazaro Perez and Tricia O'Neil) who yell and argue from the Hudson River to the Pacific. The course is the superhighway system of America. The object is to get from Manhattan to the dock of the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif., preferably without being busted by a perennially thwarted cop named Roscoe (Normann Burton...
...Neil Diamond: Beautiful Noise (Columbia). "Life ain't easy, but it ain't that bad ..." sings Neil Diamond in his Crunchy Granola baritone. "You're alive, you might as well be glad." Three and a half years ago, when he was close to the top of the rock pile, Diamond decided to take a performing sabbatical and enjoy family life. Back on the boards again - last month he earned $500,000 for three concerts in Las Vegas - he also has a new LP zooming up the pop-music charts. Diamond long ago found a formula that really...
Died. Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, Baron Bradwell, 71, author, newspaper columnist and Independent, then left-wing Laborite Member of Parliament (1942-75); of an apparent heart attack; in London. An Oxonian, Driberg first became known as "William Hickey," a gossip columnist for Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (1933-43). As an M.P. he was an outspoken critic of the "mammon imperialists" of Washington and Wall Street. The London Times, in an unusual obituary, noted that Driberg was a homosexual, a fact that he had neither publicized nor sought to hide...
...NAME NEIL SIMON has long been a successful drawing card for Broadway theaters. And though his Broadway hits have never been renowned for their depth of characterization or for the dramatic thrust of their plots, Simon's breezy style and witty one-liners have kept audiences entertained and coming back for more. But now New Yorker Simon has relocated--he has gone west, to Hollywood, where he has written his first original screenplay, Murder by Death, an affectionate spoof of popular detective fiction, and something of a change from the more urbane, comedy of manners subject material of his earlier...