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When his father lived in the White House, publicity-shy Steve Ford preferred to make his home on the range and his living by rodeo riding. But the silver screen beckoned a couple of years ago, and Ford got a chance to saddle up with Rod Steiger as a U.S. deputy marshal in a western movie called Cattle Annie and Little Britches. Now Ford, 25, has signed on full time for a CBS daytime soap, The Young and the Restless. This time he plays a nightclub bartender who woos a stripper, played by comely Melody Thomas. Says Ford: "Melody...
...early rounds produced a stunning series of upsets-seven seeded stars fell in the first round alone-and also brought the sad spectacle of McEnroe disputing calls (and piling up more fines) in matches he had no chance of losing. In his semifinal match against Australia's Rod Frawley, he picked up another penalty point, screaming, "I always get robbed because of the umpires in this place." That proved too much for Lady Diana Spencer, who left the royal box halfway through the long and argument-marred match. The display cost him an additional $10,000 fine...
...Cannonball, which opened to the third highest grossing weekend business in U.S. movie history. Superman II, which premiered the same day, is first; Star Trek-the Motion Picture is second. Moviegoers, it seems, are flocking to the tried and true. And Burt Reynolds is determined to keep trying hot-rod-and-cold-beer comedy until he gets it right...
WIMBLEDON, England--John McEnroe was warned and penalized after angry clashes with the umpire today but defeated Australia's Rod Frawley 7-6, 6-4, 7-5 to advance to the Wimbledon final...
...Rod Laver, considered by some the greatest player of all time, won the U.S. Pro Tennis Championship five times in the 1960s. In the 1970s, Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors each traveled to Longwood and returned with the title. Players as strong as John McEnroe never won the crown...