Word: reeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...associates of Sam Arkoff, chairman of American International Pictures, to their amazement spotted his film, The Masque of the Red Death, playing in a downtown cinema. Exclaimed Arkoff: "We have never made a distribution deal in Israel." Some pirates even advertise openly in catalogues such as The Big Reel, published in North Carolina, and The Film Collector, printed in Houston...
...teenage sons in Canada, and no, he hadn't stopped by Rhinelander for any particular reason, only that it was on the highway, but yes, it looked a fine community, and there sure were some great muskies, he'd heard, in Canada, but he hadn't been able to reel any in. Then two Kodakolor snapshots of Whitmore trudging across the campground puffing on a pipe, wearing sneakers. Picture courtesy of Mrs. Ellen Scholl, Sheboygan, Wisc. The clip was ten years old--1965. Anyway, poor James Whitmore, star of the early fifties sci-fi feature Them, the hero...
...academic team had enough ties to reel in the biggest companies--Nissan, Toyoto and Mitsubishi (a Japanese import-export firm)--despite the fact that none of these grants were tax-exempt in Japan. And the links Reischauer forged as ambassador to Japan in the 1960s figured significantly in the Japanese government's presentation last year of $1 million to Harvard to support Japanese studies...
Died. Larry Fine, 73, one of the Three Stooges; of a stroke; in Woodland Hills, Calif. As the frizzy-haired, tuber-nosed sidekick of Moe and Curly, Larry played an amiable idiot who spent most of his time dodging pies. Veterans of one-and two-reel shorts of the '30s, the Stooges enjoyed an extraordinary revival on TV in the late '50s, when their ham-handed slapstick endeared them to a new generation of children...
...Scottish heritage. Employing every instrument from baritone to synthesizer, this is the catchiest melody on the record. He even enlists the help of a couple of bagpipe players (found, he says, outside the entrance of a London department store honking merrily away) which give the air of a Scottish reel to the piece...