Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place, in fact, is safe from the rock jockeys any more. Now that the BBC has gone mod with a new pop station called Radio One, Britain is jumping to U.S.-style disk jockeys. The most popular is lion-maned Emperor Rosko, 24, who is better known in Hollywood as Producer Joe Pasternak's son Michael. Rosko sports a marmalade-colored fur coat and travels in a Rolls-Royce with his bodyguard, tapes his show and sends it to Radio One from Paris, where, speaking passably good French, he is also the country's No. 1 disk jockey...
...Damascus has any flaws, they are the kind that a shrewd trainer and top jockey can handle. Unlike Kelso, who was practically a pet around the stable, Damascus has a high-strung, rankish personality that sometimes loses races. Favored at 17-10 odds in the Kentucky Derby, he was already sweating before the start, folded in the stretch, and wound up third. To keep him calm in the stable, Trainer Frank Whiteley has now put a radio in his stall; Whiteley also dips the colt's protective leg bandages in a peppery solution to stop him from chewing...
Once out of the gate, says Jockey Willie Shoemaker, Damascus has all the heart anybody could want, is at his best running off the pace, then comes on strong in the stretch. The one problem is to prevent him from loafing a bit once he gets out in front. "You have to keep after Damascus, and when you do, no horse can beat him." says Shoemaker. "This colt is as good as any I've ever ridden...
...film is without distinction: it was directed by Michael Cacoyannis (Zorba the Greek). It may also be the homosexiest movie since Modesty Blaise. Two fliers (Tom Courtenay and Colin Blakeley) crash-land their nuclear weaponry on a mythical Greek island and spend the rest of the film in their Jockey shorts playing peekaboo with the villagers. Backing them up are a squad of sylphish soldiers dressed in mufti: the cunningest white booties, fishnet T shirts, lavender and puce shorts. Backing them up is an inconstant nympho (Candice Bergen) who moves with the natural fluid grace of a hand puppet...
...number 11 in the City of the Angels, but made it nowhere around the country. In November, several Los Angeles deejays started playing excerpts from the first album and all at once they received many many requests for a song called "Light My Fire." So one such disc jockey asked Elektra, the Doors' recording company, to press a shorter version and release it as a single. Since January it has become a million-seller. The record made history, of some kind...