Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what about the latest burst of retirement talk? No one really believes Ali, least of all high-rolling Impresario Don King, the fight's promoter. King's latest grand strategy calls for Ali to trek to Russia, then back to the U.S. for a $50 million Bicentennial extravaganza in Washington...
Died. Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail, 85, former New York Yankee president and sportsworld impresario; of pneumonia; in Miami...
...money will be made elsewhere, and it will be needed. For his 15 rounds-or less-in the ring, Frazier has been guaranteed $2 million. Ali will, of course, do better. His contract with Impresario Don King, the bout's promoter, calls for more than twice that sum. If the fight sells well at closed-circuit television outlets in the States, both fighters could double their take...
Died. Sir Peter Daubeny, 54, British impresario; of a brain tumor; in London. Trained as an actor, Daubeny found his stage career shattered when he lost his left arm at Salerno during World War II. He rebounded as a promoter-organizer, touring Europe, Asia and the U.S. to recruit troupes such as the Moscow Art Theater, Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble and the Martha Graham Dance Company for performances in England. In 1964 he founded the World Theater Season, which brought foreign companies to the Aldwych Theater (London home of the Royal Shakespeare Company) every spring for a decade...
...volume and stubbornness, but she seems to have mellowed. She does not act quite so much like the stepchild of Ethel Merman who spent summers with Mae West. When she does come on, James Caan is available to perform whatever deflation is necessary. Caan, who plays the flashy Broadway impresario Billy Rose to Streisand's Brice, stands up well under the painful effulgence of her superstardom. He is a scrappy actor, always looking for an opening, and he finds his full share of them-or makes them. Only Robert Redford in The Way We Were was so adept...