Word: starring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Serene and shy, Jan is a calming influence on Mickey's mercurial moods. Occasionally he missed that steady hand when he was on the road with Sugar Babies. "Mickey hates to rehearse," says Co-Star Ann Miller. "He learns instantly what's tough for a lot of other people, and he'd come in like a little bull, snorting, stomping and yelling, 'I'm not going to rehearse it.' He usually would when someone would sit down with him and explain why it was necessary. When he's in a good mood...
...have your autograph?" Allen writes, not his name, but a note: "Hi. I'm casting for my new major motion picture. Would you like to come for a screen test?" Naturally the kid passes the test, gets a part and grows up to become a big movie star. Except that Anthony DePaola, of Old Bridge, N.J., who met Woody just that way,' was screen-tested and given a walk-on part in Allen's latest film, still wants to be a doctor...
Dave Parker, the Pittsburgh Pirates' All Star rightfielder, gave Willie Stargell his nickname, and the title was a matter of some consideration. "I called him Pops because, like a father, he taught us how to take what comes and then come back," Parker explained after Stargell had won the Most Valuable Player award in the National League playoffs. "He showed us how to strike out and walk away calmly, lay the bat down gently, then get up the next time and get a home run. From him we learned not to get too high on the good days...
...other two shows also flatten Cheever's subtleties into middle-brow platitudes. In O Youth and Beauty!, Michael Murphy plays a onetime Princeton track star, now a bank executive, who vexes his wife (Kathryn Walker) by jumping over furniture at cocktail parties. Not content to let this conceit speak for it self, Playwright Gurney supplies dialogue to explain that the hero is "surmounting the obstacles of middle age . . . [by] leaping above the paraphernalia of middle-class life." In The Five-Forty-Eight, a dance of death between a married man (Laurence Luckinbill) and his jilted lover (Mary Beth Hurt...
...late '40s Shostakovich's symbolic value had accrued so dramatically that he was used to add luster to Generalissimo Joseph Stalin's postwar policies. In 1949 Shostakovich was dispatched to New York City as the star Soviet delegate to a Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, an event sponsored by such luminaries as Leonard Bernstein, Lillian Hellman and Charlie Chaplin. The conference was part of a vast Soviet-sponsored peace campaign that was conveniently distracting attention from Stalin's resumption of hostilities against his own people...