Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...George A. Romero, director of Night of the Living Dead. That ghoulish little saga of resurrected flesh-eaters stalking western Pennsylvania has been horrifying eager audiences at midnight shows for two years now; it even received a special screening at the Museum of Modern Art. Romero operates out of Pittsburgh, making his films on the cheap. Rather like Skinflick Impresario Russ Meyer, Romero edits his scenes into short blurts, which gives them a certain spurious energy. His scripts, which hover dangerously close to illiteracy, contain outrageously pedestrian dialogue, mostly shouted. ("Get Dr. Brookmyre a gas mask!") The plot...
...screenplay for the eminently forgettable Strawberry Statement and another less financially successful film, plus television scripts for two NET programs, including VD Blues, narrated by Dick Cavett. He is now working on a trilogy of plays; the first part called Alfred the Great, premiered two weeks ago in Pittsburgh...
Frisch managed the Cardinals for one more year, then moved on to run the Pittsburgh Pirates (1940-46) and the Chicago Cubs (1949-51). Between managing stints, he coached, then emerged as a play-by-play announcer for the Giants. His lament, "Oh, those bases on balls," became a fan's litany. After a 1956 heart attack, Frisch retired. He tended his azaleas, added to his collection of classical recordings and hurled steady disparagement at modern-day baseball. Samples: "Today's spring-training camps are country clubs without dues . . . Baseball players today do not have the same fighting...
...year-old Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder, generally acclaimed as one of the best baseball players of all time, died last New Year's Eve in a plane crash off the shore of his native Puerto Rico...
Score one for the American League and its "designated hitter" experiment (TIME, Jan. 22). In the first game of the 1973 exhibition season last week, which matched the American League's Minnesota Twins and the National's Pittsburgh Pirates, each team played according to the rules of its own league. Thus the Twins had the advantage of putting a hitter in the pitcher's batting-order spot without removing the pitcher from the game. The Twins' designee, Outfielder Larry Hisle, drove home seven runs with a pair of homers as Minnesota...