Original Publication – Newsweek – November 25, 1974 “Give me a minor chord, Nino.” Seated at an editing machine in Rome, director Francis Ford Coppola is scoring reel 23, the…
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I had to threaten to resign from Newsweek to get Godfather II on the cover! This story came out just before its release and I did gloat when it won…
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“Listen to that!” exclaims Steve Wonder. “I should tape it.” The blind singer’s amazingly acute ears have picked up a telephone conversation across the room where a friend is telling…
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Original Publication: Newsweek, March 4, 1974 Once they glittered from the silver screen, a legendary galaxy of female stars. Theda Bara and Garbo and Dietrich matched any male star in popularity:…
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The Cockettes were victims of the Big Hype — that peculiar New York phenomenon whereby people and things are declared hot, cool, in, out, under, and over. The poor little gold differs of ’71 from San Francisco made a big mistake — they believed it.
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