Word: tarzans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hills and Malibu. The rustic Mulholland aerie where Greta Garbo retreated when she wanted to be alone is now occupied by Rock Singer Johnny Rivers. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys holds title to the rambling Spanish colonial house Edgar Rice Burroughs built in Bel Air with profits from Tarzan. Rod Stewart resides with Britt Ekland not far away in a demi-chateau with a formal garden and a warehouse or so of rare French glass. The giants of celluloid are being ousted slowly by kids who make their millions in vinyl. The endangered superstars do not always accept...
...course, the male ego is still not completely reconciled to the upsurge of par pummeling women golfers. Leslie Greis may never become another Patty Berg, but nevertheless she is helping to change the old attitude expressed by Chi Chi Rodriguez: "I'm playing like Tarzan--and scoring like Jane...
Edgar Rice Burroughs peopled Mars with bosomy princesses and Tarzan-like adventurers. H.G. Wells populated the planet with huge, insectlike creatures. NASA scientists have yet to find either maidens or monsters on the Red Planet, but their epoch-making explorations increasingly suggest that there may be more on Mars than rocks. Though the Viking 1 lander has yet to discover the organic compounds that would enable scientists to say with any confidence that there is life out there, it has sent back evidence that processes usually associated with life on earth also take place on Mars. Says Harold Klein, leader...
...missed step. The film, which like Part 1 is a patchwork of old MGM movie clips, made its debut at Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater with the help of a chorus line of venerable hoofers (Donald O'Connor, 50, Cyd Charisse, 53, and Marge Champion, 52), one retired Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller, 71) and a true MGM golden-ager, Cory Grant, 72. But the stars of the evening were the narrators of the film: Actor-Dancer Gene Kelly, 63, and Astaire, who later adjourned to a lavish postscreening birthday party to which 900 had been invited. The festivities were vintage...
Some say big time wrestling is fake, but as any half serious student of the sport can tell you, it is highly scientific. Many holds, such as Tarzan Tyler's atomic skullcrusher and the Mongolian Stompers' "claw", rely on the findings of the likes of Einstein. Others, such as George The Animal Steel's heart stopper, could not be applied without an intimate knowledge of biology. Although this is a little known fact, many former astronauts--who are among the smartest and most scientific men in America--are now professional wrestlers under assumed names...