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...single fan showed up Aug. 7 for the opening match of Iran's avidly followed football season. After the government caught wind of plans by protesters to bring the street demonstrations into the 100,000-seat national stadium, authorities decided to have the two rival teams from Tehran and Isfahan play to an empty house rather than risk yet another embarrassing show of green and chants of "Death to the dictators...
Biggs demonstrated that same flamboyance during three decades on the run. After his escape from prison in 1965, he fled to Paris, where he underwent plastic surgery and obtained new identity papers, which he used to enter Australia. In 1969 he got wind that authorities had tracked him to Melbourne, so he smuggled himself onto a passenger liner to Panama and eventually made his way to Brazil. (See the top 25 crimes of the century...
...dockside drama he wrote for director Elia Kazan. In 2005, the "contender" line was chosen as No. 3 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest movie quotes, right after Clark Gable's "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" from Gone With the Wind and Brando's "I made him an offer he couldn't refuse" from The Godfather. In an earlier AFI poll, On the Waterfront was named the eighth greatest American movie of all time. (Read: "All TIME 100 Movies: On The Waterfront...
...After 1958's Wind Across the Everglades, which dramatized the mission of the Audubon Society to protect Florida's plume birds, Schulberg decided he was done with Hollywood. He wrote several volumes of memoirs and adapted Sammy, Waterfront and his Fitzgerald novel, The Disenchanted, into Broadway shows. By the 1970s he had retired to Westhampton, L.I., as the grizzled grandee of American fiction, page and screen...
...wind must have been coming from the wrong direction," he says. "I was really close to the Wall and could see the Reichstag. But I couldn't hear the concert...