Word: sam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...April 15 Miami Circuit Court Judge Sam I. Silver disappointed opponents of gay rights by ruling the ordinance constitutional. Last week the Dade County Commission, by a 5-to-4 vote, rejected a move to repeal the measure despite the budget-conscious argument that repeal is the only way to avert a referendum that would cost taxpayers at least $300,000. Bryant's heavily religious appeal ("God drew a circle and more or less asked me to step into it") has attracted fundamentalists and much of the Miami Catholic community, including family-oriented Cubans and Catholic Archbishop Coleman Carroll...
Keaton's whole career, in fact, has been spent in convincing herself-nobody else ever seems to have doubted her -that she is a gifted actress. In 1968, when she auditioned for the original Broadway version of Play It Again, Sam, Allen's comic tribute to Humphrey Bogart, she was, she says with double underlining, "just sick. There were all these other women there to try out for the part, and I was scared to death." And she probably could not have walked on to do her bit-if it wasn't so obvious that Allen...
Mutual Jitters. Deciding to be scared together, Keaton and Allen set up housekeeping in New York City, and she went on to star in the movie version of Sam, as well as two subsequent Allen films, Sleeper and Love and Death. Aside from the mutual jitters, it was a case of opposites attracting: he was a stereotypical New Yorker and she was a model Southern Californian. "When I first met her," Allen remembers, "she was a real hayseed, the kind who would chew eight sticks of gum at a time. I talked to her on the phone once when...
...this hard-boiled masterpiece on his first feature assignment for Warner Brothers. Like Welles, Huston grew up around the greasepaint. And like Welles, Huston came to films with a gleeful yet prodigiously discriminating eye for characature and atmosphere-creating jargon. He handles Humphrey Bogart perfectly in the role of Sam Spade--by letting Bogart do Bogart, but without the "sentimantalist" soft spots of Rick in Casablanca or the nervousness of the hunted criminal in Petrified Forest. Bogart is nothing more nor less than leather-skinned in this role: cool, jaded, manipulative. Dashiell Hammit included a last scene in his book...
...scourge of the 70s group, Buddy Goeltz, 71, wears a hearing aid. It faltered during the finals of the U.S. Clay Court Championships last fall, preventing him from hearing any of the linesmen's calls. He still won, 6-0, 6-0, beating Sam Shore, 71. Bitsy Grant, 66, a member of the U.S. Davis Cup team in the mid-1930s, has had cataract operations on both eyes, and wears sunglasses and a sun visor on the court. But none of the ailments of the Super-Seniors is as celebrated as that of L. Roe Campbell, 77, secretary-treasurer...