Word: tycoons
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...location near Pittsburgh. That must be it: De Niro does not look like De Niro. But then neither did the flat-out dumb baseball catcher in Bang the Drum Slowly, the moody aristocrat in 1900, the murderous psychopath in Taxi Driver, the elegantly upholstered movie mogul in The Last Tycoon, or the jazzed-up saxophone player in the newly released New York, New York. For that matter, none of these characters looked much like another-except for the aura of intensity under tight control that they share with their creator. De Niro's eerie ability to fine-tune...
Italian Actress Marilu Tolo took a crash course in English in Los Angeles and( is now speaking it-with brio-in a Greek drama on the island of Corfu. Tolo is on the set of The Greek Tycoon, the saga of a shipping magnate (Anthony Quinn) who chucks his mezzo-soprano mistress (Tolo) in order to marry the widow of an assassinated U.S. President (Jacqueline Bisset). All fantasy, of course. Tolo (pronounced Taw-lo) described her part as that of "a famous opera singer, a tempestuous, explosive character" who is "not Maria Callas." If there is any resemblance...
Died. Fairfax M. Cone, 74, advertising tycoon and public-spirited Chicago civic leader; after a long illness; in Carmel, Calif. Co-founder and director of Foote, Cone & Belding, he maintained that an ad should be a simple "substitute for talking to someone." He helped make Sara Lee, Kotex, Kleenex, Hallmark, Sunkist and even the doomed Edsel household names, but perhaps his most famous ad was for the American Tobacco account: "With men who know tobacco best... it's Luckies two to one." Despite its title, Cone's autobiography, With All Its Faults: A Candid Account of Forty Years...
Although formal black leadership is constantly harassed and suppressed, there are innumerable blacks who think, talk and, indirectly, lead. Mostly they are bitter and angry. Their bitterness is directed not only at the government but at the liberals, who are seen as more hypocritical than the Afrikaner. When Diamond Tycoon Harry Oppenheimer and other leading, well-meaning white businessmen set up the Urban Foundation to help improve the quality of life of black Africans, the reaction of many black spokesmen was that this would simply ameliorate apartheid rather than change anything basic. Says one black African editor: "Oppenheimer wakes...
...tycoon says of his success: "Not many people have the obscure combination of engineering education, knowledge of video syntheses, and a background of work in an amusement park. I do. Add to that courses in economics at college and a sense of how the financial system works, and you get success." In his case, that has meant a 15-acre estate atop San Francisco Bay, a 41-ft. sailboat named, of course, Pong, a Lake Tahoe ski cabin and a Mercedes 450 SL. A former Mormon who has been divorced since 1973, Bushnell admits to "liking girls." Says...