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With Oscar night approaching, the mind begins to swim in superlatives. This new comedy, starring Gene Hackman as a middle-aged man shadowboxing an identity crisis and Barbra Streisand as the kooky love interest, is a film of firsts and worsts, leasts and mosts...
...confused-or at least don't care if they are-are the millions of fans who have given Diamond, by his own reckoning, 20 platinum and gold albums and over 30 hit singles, including 1978's You Don't Bring Me Flowers, a duet with Barbra Streisand. Diamond loyalists right now are making their boy's latest efforts two of the year's hottest records. Love on the Rocks, a typically canny Diamond ballad, is currently No. 2 on the charts, while the album it comes from, The Jazz Singer, is fifth among...
...long ago, moviegoers knew, or cared about, only the big stars-Streisand and Newman, Fonda and Redford. Now the directors are often just as famous: Francis Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas. But who has heard of Reuben Cannon, Michael Fenton and Partner Jane Feinberg, Jennifer Shull, Lynn Stalmaster or Joyce Selznick? Almost 50,000 members of the Screen Actors Guild, that's who. For these are the casting directors, the silent powers who put the sparks into most of those stars way back when and who often mean the difference between a smash and a bust...
...producer and director pick the stars, of course: a John Travolta to put on his jeans for an Urban Cowboy or a Brooke Shields to take hers off for a Blue Lagoon. Sometimes the stars pick their producers and directors; in a Streisand production the only thing Barbra does not control is how much butter a patron pours on his popcorn-and she probably has firm opinions on that too. But in both television and films there are dozens of smaller roles that only the casting director can fill. For ABC's The Winds...
More recent victims of back trouble have included Cyrus Vance, Edmund Muskie, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Sutherland and Barbra Streisand. Sports figures suffer from back pain too. Golfer Lee Trevino and former New York Yankee Infielder Tony Kubek have been strick en. Earlier this year Hockey Center Stan Mikita of the Chicago Black Hawks was permanently sidelined by his aching back...