Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...someone tried to shoot me, but my guys got him and sent him to the gas chamber," one boy wrote. Another, Carmine Esposito, described a chilling scene: "The next day I wanted to see and ride in my bulletproof car, which cost $100,000. When I saw the car I fainted. The car was a black funeral hearse. I saw a coffin. It said, 'Reserved for President Esposito...
Actor George Segal plays a mean banjo, as he demonstrated last week at a party for his new film, The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox. Trouble is, he doesn't gamble, shoot or ride horses, skills he needed for his part as a shady-dealing frontier cardsharp in the movie. So last year, while George was on location with the film in Colorado, the studio recruited a professional cardsharp from Las Vegas to teach him how to cut the deck, and some genuine cowboys to school him in horseplay. He seemed a natural for the saddle; after all, recalled...
...while she traveled from the West Coast to a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania and back again. Then, on Sept. 18, 1975, two lawmen crept up the stairs of a small house in San Francisco and knocked on the door, which swung open. Petrified, Patty Hearst pleaded, "Don't shoot," and went along quietly...
...principals?Robards, Jack Warden, who played Metro-editor Harry Rosenfeld, and Martin Balsam, who played Managing Editor Howard Simons?had to be present on the set every day because Pakula had decided to shoot the city room sequences in "deep focus." This meant that even when these players did not have any lines, they were visible in the background of most scenes. They coped as cheerfully as they could with the situation. Robards would often simply retire to "his"?that is, Bradlee's?office and read the books that had presumably helped shape the character...
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