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...turned to martial romance for a chauvinized vision of what they would be when they grew up. Despite the fact that Underdog and Bionic Woman now mold the taste of young audiences, Sabatini may be in for a revival. Ballantine Books has reprinted in paperback 100,000 copies each of so-so Sabatini (The Black Swan, Captain Blood Returns, Mistress Wilding). Three examples of super-Sabatini (The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, Bellarion) are to follow. Quickly, one hopes. At his worst Sabatini is a hypnotic yarn spinner. At his best he is a semiserious novelist who, like Dumas...
...holding is Jim Bouton, the ex-New York Yankee pitcher who threw curves at the baseball establishment with Ball Four, his 1970 book about drinking, dallying and other big-league peccadilloes. The two are preparing a fall TV series (titled Ball Four) in which Bouton portrays a so-so relief pitcher and Davidson plays a catcher named Rhino. How did a 6-ft. 7-in., 275-lb. ex-football star get a job in a comedy series about baseball? "He came in to audition and said he wanted the part. We didn't have the courage...
Late Night Movies are hard to find in Cambridge, save at the Orson Welles. This weekend's midnight presentations are only so-so. George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh is okay so far as concert documentaries go; Bruce Lee's Fists of Fury is an action-packed waste of time, suitable only for the hard-core...
So-So Performance...
Springfield has already dropped games to St. Anselm's College (N.H.), 76-71, and Bentley College, 93-77, two teams that may not ring a bell as national powers. Coach Ed Bilik of the Chiefs said yesterday that St. Anselm's was a "so-so" ball club but called Bentley the best offensive team he had seen in 15 years of coaching. Springfield has one victory, a 94-67 demolition of Clark University...