Word: ricks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game winner came at 15:28 of the frenzied last period, after each team had already missed a handful of serious opportunities. After Petro had made a series of brilliant saves, Rick Campisi beat him after passes from two of the Wilson brothers...
...problem, however, proved obdurate: Brando's weight. Instead of looking like a Green Beret commander, trim and tough, Brando, who was paid $2 million, panted through the paddies like Sidney Greenstreet vainly looking for the way to Rick's Bar. Coppola's solution was to film only Brando's face and hands in closeup and to use a suitably slim, 6-ft. 5-in. double for long shots. Even Coppola's inventiveness had no remedies, however, for the two typhoons that ripped up his sets...
...would be hard to find a less "Beautiful Thing" than the opening track of this album. Clapton's choice of lyrics has always tended towards the fourth-shot-of-Jim-Beam simplistic, and though Richard Manuel and Rick Danko dreamed up this particular opaque gem, Clapton's lazy guitar and uninspired vocals add no lustre. This prolonged and painful recollection of a past love is chicory-bitter moaning. It won't generate much energy except in your fancy new turntable. You know, the kind you can program to skip tracks...
...other side of the rink, Larries' goalie Rick Wilson was shellshocked all night. As he entered the locker room following the game, Wilson could be heard singing the lyrics to Disco Puck, which is probably the state of mind you'd be in after having a puck shot in your face 43 times in the space of two hours...
...Rick Husky Beverly Hills, Calif...