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...Robert Kennedy's commitment to football, at least at the time, overshadowed his commitment to academics. Biographer Jack Newfield quotes Kennedy as confessing that he did not do much studying while at Harvard...
...stage direction, they satisfied their constituency. Edgar G. Ulmer, the vagabond king of grade-Z films, directed the black musical Moon over Harlem--as well as pictures in Yiddish and Ukrainian--all in the same year (1939). These guys were tireless: from 1935 to 1945, hack-of-hacks Sam Newfield directed an impossible 150 quickie movies, including the grindhouse curio The Terror of Tiny Town, the only all-midget singing western...
...sale, old-time Dodger fans in Brooklyn saw their first ray of hope in the 40 years since O'Malley's father Walter moved the Bums out of the city. Could the Dodgers return? "Bring 'Em Back!" the New York Post shouted on page one. Columnist Jack Newfield, who ranks Walter O'Malley as the third worst person of this century behind Hitler and Stalin, said the decision to sell could mean an end to what he called "40 years lost in the desert." Brooklyn borough president Howard Golden sent letters to Governor George Pataki and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani asking...
...minor characters, the problems lie mainly in the accents. Lady Croom (Linda Gehringer), Thomasina's mother, pronounces her humorous lines with an artificial shrillness, which lessened the sheer fun of watching her tyrannize the household. Captain Brice, RN (Anthony Newfield) is visually hysterical, wearing a hat the size of Derbyshire, but the play would benefit--epecially in terms of running time--if incidental characters like his were given fewer lines...
This was not the first time King had been lucky with a New York City jury. In the 1985 tax-evasion case, the promoter got off scot-free while one of his loyal female employees took the fall. According to Jack Newfield's biography Only in America: The Life and Crimes of Don King, King flew most of those jurors to London for the Tim Witherspoon--Frank Bruno heavyweight title bout eight months after the trial and put them up in a luxury hotel, burying the expenses as part of the fight's promotion...