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Joseph E. Levine (The Graduate) purchased The Adventurers for a million dollars before a single word was written. Creative roulette was also played by the author. Once, during the assemblage of the novel, Robbins' publisher got a sneak preview of an unfinished page. "What happens next?" he asked. "I don't know," came the reply. "The damned typewriter broke...
Then the game began. As usual, the warmup show was just a preview of the court magic that Murphy would perform in the game. Though Penn, the eighth-ranked team in the country, had everybody but the cheerleaders guarding him, he broke loose repeatedly, sprang high above the heads of his much taller defenders, and loosed long jump shots that seemed to loop out of the locker room. Just when he seemed caught in a tangle of defenders, he would uncork a pass to a teammate standing wide open under the basket. Late in the game, in a desperate attempt...
...first New York preview, The Liberation of L.B. Jones provoked a brief fistfight between a Negro youth and a white man. This response - which could echo at theaters around the country - accurately reflects the film: frustrating, morally ugly, and in the end as banal as evil itself...
...preview article in the News last week indicates the lengths to which both Eli coach Jim Gagliardi and News staffers have carried their self-deception...
...main showroom of his elegant Los Angeles salon last week, Rudi readied his forces for the first big assault: a preview showing of his 1970 line to be staged at the Hancock Park home of Socialite Eugenia Butler. The first order of business was to shave the heads and bodies of his two models. "Hair hides a lot," explained Gernreich, "and body hair is too sexual. I don't want to confuse the idea of freedom with sexual nakedness. Openness and honesty call for no covering of any kind." For Thomas Broom, 30, Rudi's male model...