Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Butler, 33, who conceived the project and is coproducer too, is a still photographer who became fascinated with the sport cum art while working on a Sports Illustrated assignment. He began promoting the film more than four years ago, even as he and Writer Charles Gaines put together a book of the same title, which became an underground bestseller and is now in its 15th printing. Money for the movie was acquired in painful bits while Fiore, the young cinematographer, was shooting, and it was still coming in as the team worked for over a year on the editing...
...Freshmen appear to have the talent to do some knocking on Satch's door. They sport a 6-1 record and face an Ivy League challenge on Wednesday against Dart-mouth at home...
...SPORT. There is no connection-except that sport is a form of warfare-but 1977 will also be the year of the cinema jock. Rocky will be followed by a flurry of boxing movies: The Greatest, all about, natch, Muhammad Ali, who plays himself; Raging Bull, starring Robert DeNiro as former Middleweight Champ Jake LaMotta; and a comedy called Knockout, in which a clothes designer buys a boxer as a tax shelter. For football fans there is Dan Jenkins' Semi-Tough, which began shooting in Dallas last week, with Kris Kristofferson and Burt Reynolds. Says Jenkins: "The script...
...told me to toss your way: Tonight at 8 you got John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys and Old Number 7 at the Rexicana Ballroom on Route 139 in Marshfield. To get to where the good ol' tunes are, you got to rev up the dune buggy, sport. (Tie your Kangaroo down first...
...still hung up on rings-only these house a different breed of cat. As a reporter for Italian television, Isabella has just finished interviewing 40 U.S. boxers -including Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Sugar Ray Robinson and Joe Louis-for an upcoming six-hour special on the history of the sport. "I used to think boxers were all big muscle but no brain. It isn't true," burbles the ringside reporter. Signorina Rossellini is also a New York correspondent for a weekly Italian news show and often turns for pointers to Stepsister Pia Lindstrom, an NBC correspondent. The final judgment...