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...wrapped in tin foil and cryogenically preserved. Two hundred years hence he is heated 'n' served in an America that has managed to preserve only that which is ghastly in our own culture: a political leader who only appears before the public mouthing pious platitudes on TV, Rod McKuen's poetry, Walter Kean's paintings, McDonald's hamburgers and vegetables, which have carried the current trend toward tasteless giganticism to its logical extreme-strawberries as big as medicine balls, bananas taller than...
...Eugene Scott. 256 pages. Crown. $14.95. Anyone suffering from tennis toe or tennis elbow should not buy this book. Even a swift shuffle through it will make them want to grab the nearest racket and rush to the court. It is the pictures that do it. Whether they show Rod Laver smashing a serve, Stan Smith straining for a backhand drive, or Billie Jean King pulverizing a forehand volley, the photographs communicate the power, grace and sheer ferocity of top-level tennis, in kinetic color and black and white. The supporting text is heavy with cliches (legends are always "untarnished...
Captain Glenn Whitman, playing at number one, totally confused Navy's Rod Smith and won handily, 15-11, 15-10, 15-6. Blasier played brilliantly at number two to overwhelm his opponent...
...Actor Rod Steiger, 48, has made a name for himself in strongman roles as Napoleon in Waterloo, Al Capone in Al Capone and the redneck police chief in In the Heat of the Night. For his latest megalomaniac, Steiger has shaved his head and lost 45 Ibs. in order to work with Italian Director Carlo Lizzani on a movie (being shot in English) tentatively called Mussolini... the Last Act. Newsreel flashbacks of the real Duce strutting and posturing at the height of his power will be interspersed with scenes of Steiger playing Mussolini during the last four days...
...throw a party for his fans in the Hollywood Palladium after his concert there. "Just with the kids that paid to see me. A party where for a change I don't have to put up a false front." His New York-based pressagent, Connie DeNave, nixed that. "Rod, darling," she said, "you're an artist. You need to be with your own kind-nice big, important people. Your kind of people." Rod darling turned away, half in frustration, half in anger. "You see what I mean? These people [the fans] are paying the money and we treat...