Word: wahl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...European tour following the filming of The Rose in 1979 provoked one last fight with Russo, and Midler was on her own. She chose a jokey film noir script called Jinxed; she chose the director Don Siegel and her co-star Ken Wahl. The brass at United Artists, then tiptoeing through the rubble of Heaven's Gate, was turning to Midler to make decisions. And the creative team, vexed at her power, turned on her. There were shoving matches and walkouts. It was a sorry time. In retrospect, Midler notes, "I feel I've had my revenge. What goes around...
Even that eligibility seems criminal to the many San Franciscans still outraged by what they believe to be a ludicrously light sentence. The only legal alternative for them may rest with the U.S. Justice Department. Attorney John Eshelman Wahl, who represents Milk's estate, is urging a new trial for White on the charge of violating federal civil rights laws. The sentence could be life imprisonment. The board of supervisors and Feinstein have endorsed Wahl's proposal. Said Feinstein recently: "The wounds are still very, very fresh." Harry Britt, the man named in 1978 to fill Milk...
...mean streak is as big as all outdoors, and his joy and canniness in exhibiting it reduce Midler, who is not exactly a recessive performer, to a quivering mass of ingratiation. If she and Ken Wahl, who plays her lover, had embraced Torn's wigged-out wickedness of spirit, they might have helped turn the film into the black comedy it sometimes seems to want to become. Still, the script keeps waffling off into farce, romance and just plain improbability; anything spineless to please. And the often estimable Don Siegel brings little conviction, comic or otherwise, to the picture...
Jinsed's basic premise is that a petty gambler named Howard (Rip Torn) has somehow managed to put a "jinx" on a young blackjack dealer. Willy (Ken Wahl), and is now chasing him from casino to casino trying to break the bank. Whenever Howard smokes a certain magically lucky brand of cigar, he's sure to win any hand Willy deals him Howard is a rather sleazy character with a seemingly infinite wardrobe of polyester Stetson hats, and this is his first chance...
...program was founded in 1938 by Harvard president James B. Conant '14 with funds left by Agnes Wahl Nieman. Conant established the fellowship to give practicing journalists an opportunity to broaden their knowledge, or pursue their area of specialty in greater depth...