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...There have been times when I've thought of suicide, but with my luck it'd probably be a temporary solution," fretted Director-Actor-Author Woody Allen in a New York Times interview on the eve of his 40th birthday. "Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions." Bisexuality, for instance. Observed Woody: "It immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night." Allen, however, is spurning all dates as he completes his newest movie, a drama about the 1950s Hollywood blacklists entitled The Front...
...lodge back home. Their scheme does not promise success - or an especially funny movie: they hypnotize an emaciated, canvas-backed middleweight contender named Bootney Farnsworth (Jimmie Walker) to give him inner and outer strength. Then they put their money on the unlikely pug to beat a nasty pro named 40th Street Black. The odds are long, but Poitier's hypnotic skills are considerable. Bootney flattens the champ in the first round. The boys clean...
...seemed an occasion for celebration. The TV lights and cameras were all assembled one night last week in a crowded 40th-floor suite in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers. Reporters scrambled for position as New York's stocky Governor Hugh Carey and New York City's diminutive Mayor Abraham Beame marched in and took seats at a small antique table and announced their triumph. After days of negotiation, said Carey, the two had finally worked out a new method to raise the $2 billion that New York City must have to stave off bankruptcy through November...
...taste in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts. There was nevertheless plenty of time to write. Edith, who had begun an unfinished novel as a child, sent poems and then short stories to the literary magazines. Her first novel, The Valley of Decision, was published in 1902, just after her 40th birthday...
...also the desire of Mrs. Jacqueline Onassis, that they both be left at peace and all detrimental and harmful speculations cease." With that statement aimed at curbing all rumors, Christina Onassis joined with Stepmother Jackie on the island of Skorpiós for the Greek Orthodox service marking the 40th day after her father's death. While a village priest swung an incense-filled censer, Jackie, Christina and a score of Aristotle Onassis' closest relatives and friends offered prayers in Ari's behalf. Afterward, worshipers completed the ceremonial rite of passage by eating from a specially decorated...