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...immigrant Sicilian feather importer, Swaggi began his career at age twelve selling fake "Parker" pens. Soon Eighth-Grader Vincent was pulling in "seventy or eighty bucks a week ... twice as much as my teachers." Flushed with the thrill of "the score," he passed up high school to study the practical wisdom of hustlers like "Willie the Wop," "Cigar Face Joe" and "Abe the Louse." During the Depression, Swaggi boasts he saved $10,000 in one year. By age 23 he had hustled his way through more than a decade of crime in four cities under two aliases...
...THREE MUSKETEERS. Richard Lester sends up Dumas without putting him down. Crafted with cheer and opulence, played for good humor and an occasional romantic thrill...
...life where one is seldom alone but usually lonely. There are plenty of men, but they are mostly grinning sycophants or lecherous disc jockeys. Yet it is almost impossible to retire; the thrill of recognition quickly becomes an opiate. "I wish I had an alter ego to hide in," says Bonnie Raitt. "This isn't the easiest way to spend one's 20s." Rock women seldom have successful marriages. The exceptions are Carole King, 33, and Carly Simon, 31, who have normal lives simply because they do not tour, and avoid the whole rock world. Known...
...services, Cohen receives only a "token payment" (his NBC salary runs to four figures a week). He explains: "U.S.C. really can't afford me." But as a former student he has other rewards: "There's a rather delicious, perverse thrill to going back there now in such a position of authority...
...lapsed Catholic and an early starter. The day after she graduated from high school in Los Angeles, where her father worked for a utility company, the young actress won her first TV assignment. She was unforgettable as Happy Hotppint, a sexless elf in appliance commercials. "Nothing can surpass the thrill when I saw myself on television," she remembers. "In fact, I was so excited I almost forgot about the pain. I was supposed to be a flat-chested neuter elf. Well, I wasn't flat-chested, and it was painful...