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...mill Harvard extracurricular activity. "I'm not a dancer by calling--it was just a total accident," she says. "I was hanging out in Man Ray one night about a month ago and, well, I was kinda drunk. So I got up and danced in the [ go-go booth ]. When I got down the manager said, `You're great, we love you.' That's how it all happened...
...become America's favorite myth. It takes more than cold weather to kill off a legend in the making. I consider elbowing to the front of the line to pick up my press tickets and head for a cup of coffee, but the people waiting at the ticket booth do not look like the sort who would believe me if I told them I had important business ahead: the cold may be stabbing, but at least it's not packing a knife...
...more sinned against than sinning. I Never Played the Game is filled with little more than self-praise and name-droppings. Cosell mentions his presence at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel and the 21 Club in New York more than he mentions his presence in the booth for Monday Night Football. He also gratuitously tosses in a story about former President Richard Nixon sending him a letter of praise. The Nixon story has nothing to do with anything else Cosell has talked about throughout the book...
...more than just the Bud-toting football fan, but also to wives, children, students, and occasional sports fans. Cosell, according to Cosell, was of course the key ingredient to that recipe, and Frank Gifford, O.J. Simpson, and Don Meredith were just a bunch of dumb jocks thrown in the booth as personal favors from Roone Arledge. Cosell even has the gall to say that the only reason Gifford still has a job is because of his close personal friendship with the ABC News president. How ironic, coming from the man about whom fans and sports critics alike have said...
...knew his creation was bound for Yuppiedom when "a Yuppie couple" went to Del Ray's booth in an open air market, and left two empty bottles of Perrier on his counter. Del Ray replaced the beer cans in his display helmet with the Perrier cans...