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...Even Sid Luckman, one of the best quarterbacks ever to play pro football, couldn't pull Columbia out of its then-70-year slump. He was named to the All-America team while directing the Columbia offense in both 1938 and '39, but at the same time, the Lions suffered through 3-6 and 2-4-2 seasons...
Perhaps this film's only other flaw is an awkward contrast to the Mayo-Paula duo. Mayo has a buddy, Sid Worley (David Kieth), who enters the service to try fill the shoes of a brother killed in Vietnam. Sid falls for the curves of one of Paula's factory floozy colleagues--but the pairing ends in a rather melodramatic tragedy out of place in an otherwise down-to-earth film...
...know you, I know you," says the clownish John Styx, greeting an arrival at the gates of hell in Jacques Offenbach's comic opera Orpheus in the Underworld. "You do look familiar," replies the rubbery-faced Miss Public Opinion. He should; Styx is being played by Sid Caesar, 59, and Opinion by Imogene Coca, 73, stars from 1950 to 1954 of Your Show of Shows, a TV comedy classic. This week, in a rare appearance together, they will be reprising many of their best bits with some singing and much mugging in four performances of Orpheus at the Opera...
...live here in the '20s," says Douglas Meltzer, 59, a former aircraft worker and a long time Hollywood resident who is out for a morning stroll. Meltzer's father came to Los Angeles to play violin in the orchestra of the Million Dollar Theater, another of Showman Sid Grauman's grandiose palaces. Meltzer, an earnest man with bushy eyebrows, wispy white hair and a chuckle for punctuation, remembers the Hollywood he knew then...
...traffic-prostitutes and pimps, bedraggled mental cases and loiterers-begins to saunter up the boulevard, one can sense something of old Hollywood. In front of the Chinese Theater, a knot of tourists may be gathered, staring at the imprint of Jean Harlow's heels in the cement, TO SID: IN SINCERE APPRECIATION: JEAN HARLOW: SEPT...