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...yards of Middle America. The two hot-rod drivers are enacting the Automobile Age's axiom of machismo: Speed thrills. Ten seconds later, the cars barrel across the finish line and the winner steps out, shaking her shoulder-length hair, allowing herself a tight, triumphant smile. Shirley Muldowney, dragstrip...
...movie's virtues are rare ones these days: honesty, modesty and a respect for all its characters. Shirley's husband (Leo Rossi) may have a streak of envy that festers into malice, but he is portrayed sympathetically as a man incapable of understanding that his no-nonsense housewife could beat him at a man's game. Connie Kalitta, Shirley's lover once she hits the circuit, is a hell-raising womanizer, but in Beau Bridges' engaging performance one can see Connie as an endangered species in a game that TV is trying to streamline into...
...Recently, the court has sought to expedite the labyrinthine appeals process, but to little avail as yet. The Autry case seemed to be typical of how the Justices would like to see such cases handled. In 1980, Autry was sentenced to death for murdering Store Clerk Shirley Drouet, 43, in Port Arthur, Texas, when the mother of five asked him to pay $2.70 for a six-pack of beer. "Here's your $2.70," he said and shot her between the eyes. After the conviction, Autry's attorney had appeals turned down in state and federal courts. When...
...TIME in its issue on American women made me sound like Shirley Temple!" I am not really against exploring depravity. I understand it's terrific both on-and off-screen and can be done by either...
...Life begins at 54 for Liza Minnelli and Shirley MacLaine and Farrah Fawcett-Majors and Supermodel Cheryl Tiegs. Oh, yes, and for Bianca Jagger and Tennis Star Vitas Gerulaitis and even Bella Abzug. Inside Manhattan's hottest disco, Studio 54, the elite meet to gyrate to the beat, gape and be gaped at. Owner Steve Rubell, who light-show years away was a Wall Street broker, stations himself at the doorway (with a few bouncers) to weed the throngs begging for entrance. "We only want fun people," he explains. "The wilder the clothes, the better the chance you have...