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Born. To Secretariat, horse racing's 1973 Triple Crown winner, whose potential as a superstud was sold to a syndicate for more than $6 million, and Leola, a 13-year-old Appaloosa mare: a male red chestnut colt, the stallion's first offspring; on a farm near Winona, Minn...
Private eyes will peer around every corner of the schedule. There are two black sleuths, CBS'S James-Bonded superstud Shaft (played by Richard Roundtree, who created the role in the film of the same title), and NBC'S Tenafly, a harassed family man who is just another employee at an outfit called Hightower Investigations, Inc. ABC's Griff (Lome Greene) is an ex-cop while in NBC's Faraday and Company Dan Dailey is an ex-con who, after 28 years in a South American jail, is slated to battle future shock as well...
...less radical. That restless inventiveness provoked in collectors the expectations about stylistic "turnover" that, now built into the market, are such a strain on more single-minded talents. It is to Picasso that we owe, in no small way, the oppressive image of the artist as a superstud that only now is coming under attack. He has even had a degree of political effect: Guernica, the mural canvas he painted in protest against the fascist ruin of Spanish democracy, is certainly the most disseminated work of political art made in this century...
Exploitation? Black intellectuals are dismayed at the spate of Shaft-like characters about to emerge, feeling that they simply perpetuate for whites the myth of the black superstud. But Parks insists that Shaft-"a ballsy guy, to hell with everybody, he goes out and does his thing"-was an important symbol for the black community. Besides, black film makers are looking at the bright side. They are getting work, and films are getting made...