Word: luck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couple of jobs, then drifted away again with a guitar player she met at the county fair. They settled in Santa Cruz, and formed a rock band that allowed her to play around in a rubbed-raw Janis Joplin style. After she married the band's manager, her luck turned all bad. He broke his neck in a diving accident and was paralyzed for three years. The band broke up. Her father died...
THEY HAVE THIS CONTEST at Dunkin' Donuts. Buy a coffee or a cruller and you get a small, rectangular card. Back in the car, coffee resting on the floor, scratch the little wax squares off the card with your thumbnail; some luck and you've won "Tic Tac Dough." On the back are the odds against winning--an even chance would require drinking something more than a million cups of coffee...
...goal: film acting. Pelé's role in Escape to Victory, now being shot by Director John Huston in Budapest, is classic typecasting. The former U.S. and Brazilian soccer star plays a former Trinidadian soccer star imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp along with Michael Caine, who, as luck would have it, played on the British national team, Sylvester Stallone, a brash American captain with promise as a goalie, and other prisoners of unquestionable talent-the cast includes 18 pro players. Pelé's biggest problem occurs off the set, where he is constantly mobbed by rabid soccer...
...looking for the normal gunslamming, Dirty Harry with a .44 magnum taking aim at the streets of San Francisco, you won't find it in Bronco Billy. What you will find is a hard luck story--with a plot as an excuse for satire...
...night on the town; Borg prefers to stay at home. "I have to sleep nine hours if I am going to feel good during a tournament," he explains. Borg gets his sleep. Recalls Arthur Ashe: "I saw Bjorn in Las Vegas and asked him if he'd had any luck at the tables. He couldn't understand why I want ed to talk about the furniture...