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...atmosphere that he likes to believe pervades the mansion in Los Angeles. Hef surely has his self-delusions, but in this case he also has a point. Any would-be father figure might have his doubts about Dorothy Stratten's choice of a mate. Granted, it was Paul Snider who discovered her behind the Dairy Queen counter in Vancouver, B.C., sent the first crude nudes to Playboy's talent scouts and faked her mother's name on his underage protegee's release form. But gratitude must have its limits, and as the publisher says, Paul...
This exchange is almost thrown away in Star 80, the terse, harrowing movie Bob Fosse has made to explain what finally led Snider to murder the one he loved (and kill himself as well). But the words pierce to the heart of the matter as the writer-director sees it. Everyone Dorothy Stratten meets wants to exploit her in some way. Yet in this peculiar moral universe, Fosse suggests, the differences between Hefner (played with slithery menace by Cliff Robertson), Snider and the upscale moviemaker (Roger Rees) who aspires to be her ultimate Pygmalion are more a matter of style...
That is why Dorothy's response is so unconsciously acute. She instinctively understands that what is developing around her is a tragedy of manners; Snider has read the bottom line shrewdly, but he has a blind eye and a tin ear for the social pieties, even the dress code, by which naked need and manipulative greed must be clothed for the sake of the respectability he desperately desires...
...statistical, not logical. Many are sure to mention that there are ten more major league teams now than in 1962, and therefore, in a way, 250 bush leaguers at large. Certainly baseball no longer enjoys first call on the country's best athletes. Today, Flatbush's Duke Snider, like Stanford's John Elway, might have been persuaded to toss a football...
...star of San Diego's team. Cey has joined the Chicago Cubs. While Brock hit home runs last year in Albuquerque, he has a worried look, and the constant mention of Garvey's name is wearing. If that isn't enough, Duke Snider's name is being invoked too, as in "the best power-hitting prospect since Duke Snider." Brock will be lucky if no one brings up Gil Hodges...