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...superstars of the late 80's. Who would ever think two years ago that Toronto's Jesse Barfield would lead the majors last year in homeruns with 40? Who would have said that Dodger second baseman Steve Sax would hit .332 in 1986? Or that Kirby Puckett would bang out 31 round-trippers...
...some 70 participants spent an hour discussing the candidates' electability. Said Geologist Frederick Bragdon: "I didn't feel the Democrats were putting forward the best candidate to defeat Ronald Reagan. After New Hampshire, I see Gary Hart as a potential candidate who can do that." For Tom Puckett, 30, of Savannah, not even his personal uncertainty about Hart's program weakens that perceived advantage. Says he: "Even though you don't really know what he stands for, he has the ability at this point to beat Reagan, and as a registered Democrat that's what...
...Super Bowl. Our cover story, written by Associate Editor B.J. Phillips, contrasts the opponents: the cool, efficient Cowboys and the upstart Broncos. One problem for Phillips was to figure out what lifts a team through all the playoffs and into the big bowl. "I finally concluded that Billy Clyde Puckett was onto something in Semi-Tough," she says. "He found out that everyone wants to win, but the champions are the guys...
Taking a longer view, Reynolds adds, "I'm trying very subtly and subliminally to ease myself away from Billy Clyde Puckett and toward Gary Grant. I may be the most unsophisticated Gary Grant in 20 years, but I'm going to get there." Beyond that lies a still wilder dream. "I want to lead a quiet, pseudointellectual life and go out and direct a picture two times a year. You can only hold your stomach in for so many years...
Burt Reynolds is the white running-back hero, Billy Clyde Puckett, Kris Kristofferson is his buddy, split end Shake Tiller, and Jill Clayburgh is the girl of their dreams, Miss Barbara Jane Bookman, a Phyllis George clone who looks to have maybe been Sigma Chi Sweetheart of 1962 at Ole Miss. And before this proceeds any further, the discriminating moviegoer should know that while Semi-Tough is at times an honestly funny film, it is also maddeningly sexist...