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...trying to look stoic. Caine carries on with a variety of bleats, sneers and snivels. X Y & Zee, however, is mostly a vehicle for Miss Taylor, who gets still another chance to do the bitch-Earth Mother act seen previously in Boom and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? She can be a good actress and is still a beautiful woman; it is a sorrowful thing to watch her camp it up. O'Brien and Director Brian G. Hutton (Where Eagles Dare} toss dialogue and bits of business her way like zookeepers throwing fish to a performing...
Richard L. Alfred '74--who filed suit last month for $400--claims that a salesman refused to sell him Death of the Moth by Virginia Woolf when Alfred discovered three letters in the back of the book written by the authoress...
...golly-gee pitch is deceiving. To the team owners who must negotiate with him, he is the original Woolf at the door. Boston Celtics General Manager Red Auerbach, for one, swore that he would never meet with a sport lawyer -until Woolf appeared with nine of the twelve Celtic players as his clients. Now, after Woolf wangled deals like a $500,000, three-year contract for Forward John Havlicek, Auerbach admits "Woolf has helped a lot of players...
...Field Activities. And scared a lot of owners. Two years ago, when the Red Sox traded Ken ("the Hawk") Harrelson, the American League's Player of the Year, to the Cleveland Indians, Woolf craftily advised the flamboyant outfielder to "retire," on the grounds that the move would jeopardize the Hawk's business interests in Boston. In a subsequent meeting with Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, Woolf worked out a "substantial compensation" for his client's supposed business losses. Harrelson promptly unretired. "When we went to New York," Woolf proudly explains, "the sport world didn't understand the importance...
...eight lawyers on Woolf's staff, the wheeling and dealing never stops. Offering "complete representation," Woolf and his associates not only thrash out injury and waiver clauses but handle trades, drafts, taxes, bills, wills, movies, TV, endorsements, investments, public appearances and even manners. When the Boston Bruins' Derek Sanderson won the National Hockey League's Rookie of the Year honors in 1968, Woolf schooled the then 21year-old high-school dropout in the social graces, got him a TV talk show, won him a salary increase from $14,000 to $50,000 and had him dash...