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...main character in this 90-minute futuristic flick is Flynn, the video addict's hero. He is not too good looking, and he's not terribly clever. But he plays a mean game of Space Paranoids, and his record score of 999,000 turns on plenty of women who hang around amusement arcades...
...addition to his unparalleled skill, Flynn actually owns his own video center. In short, he has everything a man could desire. So what's the rub? Well, as a former employee of Encom, a leading video manufacturer, Flynn invented many of the most popular games on the market. But through the dirty dealings of one Dellinger, now chief executive of the company, Flynn was cheated out of fame and fortune. Using his home terminal, he searches the corporation's computer memory for proof that he was robbed...
...Burton and (in separate covers) Elizabeth Taylor are merely the foremost subjects of the latest crop of biographies, autobiographies and memoirs. Dozens of these volumes have been gushing off the presses, and sometimes the trend seems to be toward not just revelation but multiple exposure: Joan Crawford and Errol Flynn have been dealt with in a couple of books each, and three biographies of Gary Cooper issued forth almost simultaneously...
...theatrical temptation of make-believe. Yet the accumulated mountain of star lore certainly tells more than enough about what Hollywood stars are actually like. The Secret Life of Tyrone Power depicts that virile swashbuckler as bisexual. In The Untold Story, Charles Higham tries to make a case that Errol Flynn was also sexually ambivalent-and argues, not quite convincingly, that Flynn was a Nazi agent of some sort. In This Life, Sidney Poitier confesses to catching an adolescent case of gonorrhea, and in Please Don't Shoot My Dog, Jackie Cooper claims to have been the teen-age lover...
...always a dreary staircase to some cold, terrifying gym. He did not rush to the climb. "Boxing wasn't my dream," he says. "It was just a sport to me." To his father it was something more. Gerry enjoys likening the Cooneys to the Corbetts in the old Errol Flynn movie Gentleman Jim, and he approves of the nickname "Gentleman Gerry." Had Ward Bond portrayed the father, that would have been Tony Cooney. But Bond played John L. Sullivan...