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Biotti, who attended local hockey powerhouse Belmont Hill, gained recognition as a teenage phenom when he was named the 17th pick in the first round of the National Hockey League draft...
...network in 1981, an estimated $5 million of red ink has been alchemized into a projected $200 million profit for 1985. But what has NBC sold viewers on? Mostly a feast of slick weekly series in three broad categories: the traditional situation comedy, led by last season's phenom The Cosby Show (2nd in the yearlong Nielsen ratings to CBS's Dallas) and including Family Ties (3rd), Cheers (9th), Night Court (19th) and The Facts of Life (24th); a quartet of red-meat adventure shows, from The A-Team (6th) and Riptide (12th) to Miami Vice (33rd, with a bullet...
Yesterday's phenom, today's ho-hum. A few years ago, Richard Pryor was the comic everyman of movies and the top black box-office draw. But the pictures he made at machine-gun pace were too ordinary to sustain his eminence. He was still a star, but in spite of his work, not because of it. Worse, a new black phenom, with just as much on the ball and a better batting average, stole Pryor's thunder. Now he works in the shadows, a batting practice pitcher for All-Star Eddie Murphy...
...former Harvard student and Buddhist monk, with a 168 m.p.h. fastball exploded onto baseball's spring training scene last week as the New York Mets' hottest rookie phenom, according to George A Plimpton '48 in his April 1 Sports Illustrated magazine article...
College scouts were not the only one to notice Bausano as a high school phenom, a Russia, wrestler coach who had defected from the USSR also recognized potential in Bausane...