Word: cooperatives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should. When the great director King Vidor made The Champ in 1931, he created a four-handkerchief corker; a fine cast (Wallace Beery, the young Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich) and Vidor's emotional restraint prevented a sugary story from caramelizing. This remake, directed by Franco Zeffirelli (Romeo and Juliet), is another matter entirely. By miscasting all three major roles, adding 35 minutes to the original film's running time and reaching for cheap effects, the director has gilded a lily and then shredded...
Except for a few, like Robert Flaherty, and the team of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack who went on to make King Kong, most of these film makers toiled in anonymity, under unimaginably arduous conditions, to bring back pictures for which they were ill paid, and which posterity has treated with cavalier indifference. A priceless visual record of our immediate past has been lost, cut up or allowed to disintegrate in ill-tended vaults. Similarly, the stories of the people who made these films have gone untended by film librarians. Until...
...Malcolm Cooper, seeking to better his 11th place finish in 1978, had a poor start and simply couldn't recover in the 50-yd. freestyle...
There were complaints voiced around the pool that the starter consistently did not hold the swimmers long enough in the "take your marks" position. This problem would be particularly detrimental to Cooper, who relies on a strong, high push to initiate his pike-dive start...
...Although Cooper's time (21.03) would have won the Easterns, the NCAAs are a different level of competition...