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...saga over. One night in 1975, according to Larry Jr., a moonlighting Boston policeman drove a cab into a parking lot where the younger O'Donnell worked, and blocked the entrance. When asked to move the car, claims Larry Jr., the officer slugged the young attendant and, with the help of plainclothes colleagues who rushed over from the street, thoroughly beat him up. Now they are defendants in a $175,000 suit filed by Larry Jr., who has a book about police killings due to be published later this year...
...saga of Ryder vs. Ryder is heading into the courtroom. Ryder System last spring sued Jartran for stealing its trademark, logo and business methods. Both Ryder and Jartran trucks have two parallel, horizontal stripes across their sides and display the slogan RENT ONE WAY & LOCAL in similar designs. Jartran ads feature large pictures of James Ryder and tout him as "the man who invented truck rental." Moreover, Ryder contends that Jartran is raiding its personnel and that some 150 former Ryder employees work for the new company. Admits James Ryder: "Most of them have come on their...
...comes to filching TV sets for ready cash As he puts it, he and his brother are both "city coyotes." Lee is also enough of a raconteur and Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, etc., golfer to con Austin's movie producer, Saul Kimmer (Louis Zorich), into buying his unwritten cornpone saga of the "true West." Saul is one of those monstrous Hollywood moths who skirt the flames of venality, yet never get torched. All three men are the progeny of Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man, that emetically funny moral jeremiad hurled with lethal precision at the cynic American psyche...
Still, the movies keep trying-especially after the success of the Star Wars saga, which has comic-adventure roots. Two big-budget Christmas releases illustrate the perils and pleasures of going to popular culture's sub-basement in search of material. Flash Gordon, which expensive but unpretentious, works; Popeye, which reflects the critical and sociological chat about comics in recent years, does not. Indeed, it is one of the most grievously miscalculated movies in recent memory, claustrophobic in manner, mean in spirit, downright grotesque to look...
Famous author and future Pope also share family ties; Toomey's sister was once married to Campanati's brother. French, English, Italian and American blood mix in this distended family saga. Blood also flows in the trenches of World War I, the alleys of Prohibition Chicago, the death camps of Nazi Germany, the bush of contemporary revolutionary Africa...