Word: rods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stage hunched over piano holding together the music with his discreet and rippling underpinning. Mick Waller on drums, his eyes fixed on Beck, face contorting, eyes glazed, his arms chopping, producing a sharp and clear rattling as each drumbeat rams more or less neatly into Beck's flying notes. Rod Stewart, the singer, a man of flinty beauty, and a fertile smile, has a tingling roughness in his voice...
...Jason Robards Jr. narrates a documentary on the scenes and people celebrated in the works of Ernest Hemingway. Film crews return to the ruins of the village of Valsain, the Sierra de Guadarrama, and the cities of Madrid, Malaga, San Sebastian and Cuenca. The program includes readings by Rod Steiger and Estelle Parsons and performance by Antonio Ordoñez, the bullfighter immortalized in "The Dangerous Summer...
Adverse criticism has so far not inhibited Zeffirelli's energy, esteem or income. His salary for Romeo and Juliet was $50,000 plus a hefty percentage, and he will make even more from his new projects, notably a movie of Brecht's Galileo, starring Rod Steiger. At his bachelor villa near Rome, Zeffirelli remains the low-pressure gran signore, entertaining ten or twelve friends for lunch, inhaling gusts of Winston smoke from fingertip-held cigarettes. His braggadocio extends even to his genealogy. "One day my father showed up with an armful of documents," he recalls. "He finally...
...around, there was no reason for a mere political pooh-bah to titillate the thousands who assembled outside Broadway's Criterion Theater for the benefit premiere of Funny Girl, the movie musical of the life of Fanny Brice. George Segal showed up in a double-breasted Nehru jacket, Rod Steiger in a black shirt with gold medallion, and Leading Man Omar Sharif in an old-fashioned tuxedo with wide peaked lapels. But all oohs and ahs were for the star of the spectacle, Brooklyn's own Barbra Streisand, who said: "I feel like a kid with a plaything...
Lately he has learned to hang on for the kill. Since July, when he got to the semifinals at Wimbledon before losing to Australian Pro Rod Laver, Ashe has won 26 straight matches, two of them in Davis Cup play against Spain. Last month he beat Bob Lutz to take the U.S. Amateur title...