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...Jewel. No one markets a movie better than Paramount's own odd couple (see boxes pages 88 and 89). An industrial-diamond-in-the-rough, Yablans, 38, orders the world around like a drill sergeant and employs a primal scream as casually as most people sneeze. The slight, agile Evans, 43, given to longpoint collars and cashmere sweaters, projects a kind of artless charm and wide-eyed aestheticism. But he is as obsessive about what he wants and is credited with being the figure who has, in show-business parlance, turned Paramount around. He runs day-to-day production...
David asked if his drill sergeant would be at the Reception Station when he got there; he didn't want him to see all that hair; David's hair was about as long as Joan Baez's. I said he wouldn't care anyway, probably 10,000 kids a year showed up with hair that long...
...said yeah he was right and then David asked again if I was sure his sergeant wouldn't be there. I said I was almost positive. Then Chuck started talking about the last time he came to New York City on the train, in the summertime, and there was this girl sunbathing on the roof without any clothes on, and he could see everything; you could see her ass hole and everything. Even the ass hole, Tom wanted to know, and started to laugh, rolling his eyes at me. Chuck said...
...said that Chuck had told him about going into the recruiting sergeant's office wasted on heroin and the sergeant knew it and told Chuck not to say anything when he took the physical, and also when he got to Fort Dix. Tom said that he knew about another guy who had high blood pressure and couldn't pass the test and the sergeant gave him pills to take so that he could pass it. Then Tom said again how he was mad at being stuck with these guys and started swearing to himself...
...mainmast collapsed. By radio, Tabarly ordered a new spar. Under jury rig, he headed for Rio, 1,200 miles away, to pick it up. The 82-ft. mast, fabricated in Switzerland, had to be cut in two to fit into a French military jet. Meanwhile Blyth, a former paratroop sergeant, was learning that $350,000 worth of sleek boat does not necessarily go fast when manned by a crew of paratroopers with little sailing experience...