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There is, of course, a historical Melvin Dummar. He is the Utah gas station operator who claims that in 1968 he picked up an injured Howard Hughes in the desert, gave him a lift back to Las Vegas, and was rewarded by being named a beneficiary of Hughes' will-a document that the courts ruled invalid two years ago. Anyone looking for authentic information about that Melvin and that Howard is advised herewith that this movie will not help: the film makes no claims about Melvin's tale one way or the other. But anyone looking...
Twice in the movie, Conrad picks up a paperback copy of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, inviting unwelcome comparisons with a more successful American epic, in which Hunter Thompson makes as much sense as you could of the heart disease in the thorax of the American Dream. There is little of Fear and Loathing in Ordinary People, only a bizarre hope of salvation through psychiatry and a blissfully naive belief in the power of love. Clearly, something is really wrong, not only in Lake Forest, Ill., but in America. Yet nobody seems to know exactly what it is that...
...harder than ever. Since his defeat of Leon Spinks in the fall of 1978, Ali had ballooned to a blubbery 254 Ibs. But after he signed (for $8 million) to fight Holmes in a 25,000-seat temporary arena specially built in the parking lot of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Ali retreated to his training camp in the Pennsylvania mountains to whittle away the excess pounds. More than two months of arduous workouts reduced him to fighting trim; he weighed in at 217% Ibs., the lightest he has been since 1974, when he won the title for the second...
...Las Vegas, Sept. 15. The sign outside one of the more celebrated spas on the strip proudly trumpets TODAY! GARY WELLS JUMPS CAESARS PALACE FOUNTAINS. So he does, and the result fully lives up to the name of the stunt's sponsor, ABC's thrill-pandering series That's Incredible! While gawkers gawked and cameras whirred, Wells, a professional stunt man, gunned a motorcycle up a ramp, sailed over the water fountains outside the showplace, but crashed on his descent. Result: a ruptured aorta and fractures of the pelvis, thigh and lower...
...Everything was secret unless we were told otherwise. We hired a p.r. agency to say, 'No comment.' " Top executives no longer have to punch a code into an elevator in the parking garage before they can enter the firm's unpretentious headquarters two miles from the Las Vegas strip. Company officers now work in fourth-floor offices rather than the windowless basement rooms that Hughes' aides occupied...