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These assorted travails have left a visible mark on the Chancellor. His much-admired confidence now seems more like grating arrogance; he seldom flashes his famed toothy grin, and often appears wan and uncharacteristically glum. Says an aide: "He is deeply troubled, nothing goes right...
Nobody in the movie business, where negative thinking seldom intrudes, can remember a summer so financially successful. United Artists, a subsidiary of the San Francisco conglomerate Transamerica, is scooping up wads of money from Rocky, which has grossed more than $100 million, Network ($30 million), The Pink Panther-Strikes Again ($40 million) and Woody Allen's Annie Hall, which took in $14 million in only seven weeks. Competitors are openly envious. Sighs Charles Bluhdorn, chairman of Gulf + Western, which operates Paramount Pictures: "I saw the first 15 minutes of Rocky, and I said, 'Why the hell didn...
Exactly how good is the new champ, and how does he compare with colts of memory fresh and dim? His light racing experience somewhat handicaps judgment, as does the lack of first-class competition. He has seldom shown the scorching times of Secretariat, nor does he appear to have Big Red's hunger for the killer win, as in Secretariat's unforgettable 31-length victory in the Belmont. Slew seems content to put out enough to win and no more...
...fall. Says Bryan: "I've made a decision about what I want to do for the rest of my life. I like to be with people more than just being in a lab all day." The tall, lanky graduate does not smoke-either cigarettes or marijuana-seldom drinks beer, is largely apolitical, and spends his spare hours waltzing and tangoing with other members of M.I.T.'s ballroom dancing club. A neat dresser, with every short blond hair in place, he admits: "I'm probably more conservative than most, more traditional...
...Seldom has an anthology of critical essays aroused so much prepublication anxiety as Diana Trilling's We Must March My Darlings. Playwright Lillian Hellman told the New York Times last year she had heard the manuscript contained "a hysterical personal attack on me." Little, Brown, the publisher for both writers, requested the deletion of four passages about Hellman from the Trilling text. When the author refused, the publisher terminated the contract, precipitating a ruckus whose reverberations can still be heard...