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Dynasty and Power. Coppola was an established screenwriter (he won an Oscar last year for co-authoring Patton), but he had an indifferent record as a director (Finian's Rainbow, You're a Big Boy Now). Nevertheless, Evans had faith in Coppola's ability, and attached particular importance to the fact that he was Italian-American. Says Evans: "He knew the way these men in The Godfather ate their food, kissed each other, talked. He knew the grit." Coppola, deeply in debt, could have used an offer to direct traffic, let alone a movie like The Godfather...
...certainly helped her to develop what she had. When Liza was born, Judy was still at the height of her career. It was 1946, and for postwar Americans she still evoked the simpler times when Andy Hardy was in love and the Land of Oz was rainbow hued. Meanwhile, Liza's father, a courtly, cultivated man whom she still idolizes, was busy creating such polished movie musicals as Ziegfeld Follies and Meet Me in St. Louis. Though sometimes frenetic, family life was full of laughter, flowers and music. It was also somehow unreal...
Trumpets blared. Fireworks exploded. Drums and cannons thundered. A 700-voice chorus sang hallelujah. A band played The Ballad of Rainbow and Snow. Eight hundred Japanese children on ice skates released 18,000 multicolored balloons into the air. More than 1,000 athletes from 35 countries paraded in their winter finery. And right in the middle of it all was the old ringmaster himself, Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.). In calling upon Emperor Hirohito officially to open the 1972 Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan, last week, Brundage said: "May the Olympic code of fair play...
...Doors released an album and went on tour, and the Allman Brothers said they too would continue to tour, although they would try to replace Duane (as if it were possible). Reprise posthumously released two Jimi Hendrix albums, The Cry of Love (representing his last studio work) and Rainbow Bridge, the soundtrack from a yet-to-be-released movie...
...jammed inside heard the Rev. Jesse Jackson spell out his plans for Operation PUSH-People United to Save Humanity-which would continue the programs he started while head of Operation Breadbasket. The new organization, Jackson said, would be born officially on Christmas Day, and its membership would be a "rainbow coalition" of people, white and black, who would "push for a greater share of economic and political power for all poor people in America in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King...