Word: dodgerism
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...Manhattan's most mysterious citizens, aging (66), ailing Frank Costello, commonly termed a gambler and tax-dodger because no more nefarious raps have been officially pinned upon him, has long been ripe for rubbing out. Now free on $25,000 bail while appealing a tax-evasion conviction (five years), Costello, a charmed-life anachronism from the Prohibition Era, could see signs that he had outlived his right to be known as "prime minister of the U.S. underworld." The obvious way for upstart mobsters to hasten the crumbling of Kingpin Costello's dark empire of crime and rackets would...
According to Holy Cross sources, Farino won the MVP award pitching against Brooklyn Dodger rookies, and was highly sought after by professional scouts in general upon graduation from Mamaroneck, N.Y., high school, where he was an All-Westchester County selection for two years...
...Bachelor Party is succesful and well worth seeing. Charley, the young man (Don Murray), and his wife (Pat Smith) are both properly ordinary looking and, their intent being to act as naturally and untheatrically as possible, do very well. Jack Warner is just right in another of his Dodger fan roles and E.G. Marshall gives a good performance, if he is a little too intent on stripping bare his character for all to see. Carolyn Jones gives the best performance as the fast and intellectually chic Villager who is so wretched that she doesn't know when she is lying...
Gamy Gamut. Unlike soap opera, the average confession story runs a gamy gamut of misadventure and misfortune whose-Boccaccian detail is tempered only by the bowdlerized prose of Hollywood. A bastard is a "sin child" or "living proof," adultery is "cheating." But in the end, every Wedding-Ring Dodger and Faithless Mate, however devious, rises above the blighted past ("Is he remembering her when he kisses me?") and, overcoming the doom-fraught future ("A lifetime of not knowing"), concludes his or her chronicle on a hopeful note. "Sure, we're Pollyanna," shrugs Nina Dorrance, young (35) editor of superslick...
...contract-the same pay as last year ($35,000) plus a promise that his roommate will be his new teammate Jackie Robinson. "I just hope he'll be my roommate all the time," said Willie, "so he'll teach me things." But aged (38 this month) ex-Dodger Robinson abruptly announced that he is retiring from baseball-and sounded as if he meant it. "It was a day-to-day proposition with me all last year," he said. "I'm grateful...