Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pendleton (Beatty), a star quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams, looks as though he is about to suffer a tragic death in a tunnel collision between his bicycle and a truck. A novice heavenly escort, (played by Buck Henry) removes Joe's soul from his body just before the smash-up in order to spare Joe the pain. Of course, the escort does not realize that Joe, being an excellent athlete with quick reflexes, would have avoided the crash and lived for another 50 years. Joe protests his early departure to heaven and the mistake is soon discovered by another...
...daze. With Navratilova leading 1-0 in the second set, Wimbledon fans witnessed one of the oddest turning points in the history of Centre Court. Evert lofted a desperate return high over the net, and Navratilova leaped to kill it. But what ought to have been an easy smash wasn't: her high stroke completely missed the ball, which plopped softly behind her for Evert's point. Navratilova covered her face with her hand, utterly embarrassed by the humiliation of fanning in Centre Court. But rather than crumbling, as she had so often in the past, she roared...
...Bruce Springsteen." That was a pretty tall order for a raggedy-looking dude from Asbury Park, N. J. to fill. That and Time Magazine's talk of him as the new Bob Dylan put a great deal of pressure on Springsteen to produce a suitable follow-up for his smash 1975 album, Born...
...symphony drummer, then as a clowning disc jockey. In 1965 he abandoned a $150,000-a-year radio post on KNX in Los Angeles to risk acting in a new CBS-TV comedy series about American prisoners of war in a German concentration camp. The show was an unexpected smash, and Crane, as the P.O.W.s' brash, resourceful ringleader, Colonel Hogan, became one of the most familiar faces on television...
Beatty is not only the star of Heaven Can Wait but the co-writer (with Elaine May), co-director (with Buck Henry) and producer. Having already produced two smash hits in his only previous tries, Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Shampoo (1975), Beatty must now be regarded as a major film maker as well as a star. "He is really a perfect producer," says Arthur Penn, who directed Bonnie and Clyde. "He makes everyone demand the best of themselves. Warren stays with a picture through editing, mixing and scoring; he plain works harder than anyone else I have ever seen...