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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Atlanta's Phil Niekro, who helped his brother master the knuckler, now watches his success with wistful pleasure: "It's great that we're both having good years, but I'd like to play on a contending club, feel what it's like to go into a clubhouse every day and know you're going to be in the thick of a pennant race." The experience, Joe says, is so good it's almost like the old days in the backyard. "Pitching for me now," says Joe Niekro, "is just like going...
Mary Martin was the first Peter Pan to sing and dance in a full-scale musical. She repeated the role several times on television, and for millions the part will always be hers. But for those seeing the play for the first time, Sandy Duncan will probably seem equally inevitable as the boy who refuses to grow up. Underneath her male costume, Martin was clearly a woman; the difference is not so apparent with Duncan, who is, in fact, closer to James M. Barrie's original conception. Her Peter is androgynous, part boy, part tomboy. As she plays...
Martin has constructed the play so skillfully that past and present join to form an artful mosaic. Though they never appear onstage, all those close to Stein, particularly her brother Leo and her lover Alice B. Toklas, are given life by her recounting. To help her memorize her difficult role, Carroll sought the help of a hypnotist. If this mesmerizing performance is any guide, she appears to have learned the hypnotist's art herself...
Soviet Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko has turned to that most blatantly capitalistic of occupations, making movies. He stars in Take-Off, a film about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, celebrated by the Soviets as a pioneer of space travel. One Moscow critic called Yevgeni's performance patchy. Nevertheless, Yevtushenko gushed that playing the rocket man "left a tremendous imprint on my own destiny." It was tough, declared Moscow's Establishment poet, to play someone "far more interesting, better and more important than I am. I had to concentrate all my inner resources, find everything good in my soul...
...that cowboy in wrap-around sunglasses? Can it be the Lone Ranger? Clayton Moore, 64, who long played the daring rider of the plains, has been restrained by court order from using the trademark mask in nostalgia appearances. Wrather Corp., which owns the masked-man rights and plans to release a new Lone Ranger film, complained that Moore has grown too old to impersonate the fearless avenger of evil. Moore fought back by retaining his familiar white hat and, until the case is settled, wearing sunglasses. "I'm not happy with the sunglasses," admitted the western hero...