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...nightclub teaching people to dance to James Brown records on the juke box. Labro was so struck with his presence that he offered Luchini his first film role in "Tout Peut Arriver" (1970). Luchini threw himself into acting with a passion, studying with such theatrical legends as Jean-Laurent Cochet and Michel Bouquet and devouring the classics. "I couldn't go to school," he says, "so like all self-taught people, I immersed myself in the works of two or three great writers - Flaubert, Hugo, Molière - and developed myself from there...
...expressions while addressing a golf ball. There was never a more machinelike player than Lacoste in his heyday. He won so consistently because his ground-strokes could not be faulted; and he was a past master of that now neglected piece of tennis finesse, the lob. His teammates, Cochet, with his half-volley, and Borotra, with his catlike ballet at the net, were the crowd-pleasers, not Lacoste, whose stroke-production always seemed to be rolling off one of those assembly lines he has since dominated in the business world...
...mechanical engineering studies to play tennis. He played so well that he was twice Forest Hills and Wimbledon champion as well as three-time champion of France. He was a member of the only French team that ever won the Davis Cup (1927, with Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon as fellow team members). Lacoste played so fiercely that sportswriters dubbed him le Crocodile. When he left the tournament circuit in 1929, he remembered the name. Competitors like Big Bill Tilden had worn starched long-sleeved men's shirts on the courts, but Lacoste was so uncomfortable...
...best tennis of his career to pull out the match. As he faced Hoad it seemed improbable that he could be that good again. But he was. Watching him took spectators back to the golden days of prewar tournaments, to Tilden and Vines and Budge, to Perry. Crawford and Cochet...
...heart was still at the fronton. French Tennis Champion Jean ("The Bounding Basque") Borotra, a fine pelotari himself, took the youngster under his wing, brought him to Paris and taught him tennis. Urruty was soon good enough to go on an exhibition tour with French Tennist Henri Cochet...