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...Redford, playing Gatsby was the achievement of an old ambition. When he signed for the role, he had just done a couple of unsuccessful pictures following his first big splash in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. He was a star, certainly, but he had not yet entered the ranks of the "bankable" top ten. During the work on Gatsby, however, The Way We Were and The Sting were released, and Redford became the most sought-after actor in town...
Died. Walden Robert Cassoto, 37, the crooner known as Bobby Darin, who at 22 became a rock-'n'-roll star with Splish Splash, won a larger audience with his driving version of Kurt Weill's Mack the Knife; following open-heart surgery for a longtime heart ailment; in Los Angeles. A confessed student of the Sinatra style, Darin characteristically loosened his tie and snapped his fingers even when singing somber songs. In 1960 he married Sandra Dee, but by the middle of the decade both his marriage and his career were turning sour. A divorce...
...weeks, Miró traveled from his house in Majorca to Royo's studio, a converted flour mill in Tarragona, outside Barcelona. There Royo would spread his newest tapestries on the floor. Miró studied each, with all its intricate twists, sworls, braids and tailings. Then he might splash a design across the rhythmic shapes, or snatch up some scrap of cloth to provide an accent or an assertion, using material from among the detritus lying around the studio. These were appliquéd into the tapestry itself...
...halfback named Charity; the crooked judge: an official who refused to call interference after Charity flattened McInally while (but not before) the Stoeckel throw was in transit; the result: in six plays a Yale touchdown. From then it was all downhill: 14-0, 21-0, 28-0, 35-0. Splash...
...show, which Sha Na Na promoters are boosting for a run on Broadway, opens in the traditional Sha concert style. Highlighted by the Three Men in Gold, the band blitzes through a series of oldies--from "Yakety Yak" to "Tell Laura I Love Her," from "Splish Splash" to "Tears on My Pillow...