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...James McCoy Jones, an associate professor in Harvard's Social Psychology Department, may be headed for the bestseller list with an extraordinary work on a much maligned and misunderstood athlete, Mack Herron of the Atlanta Falcons...
...said in an interview yesterday. "They know he played in Canada, then some hazy story about a drug conviction, and then that the Patriots picked him up, The press, the fans, the coach, and the Patriot organization--none of them took the time to find out about the real Mack Herron...
Jones' book tries to look at football from the side of the human beings who play it. "Mack Herron has struggled to survive and make the most of what America has to offer when America hasn't offered him anything to work with except his wits, courage, and guts. He has come out of a virtual wasteland, the slums of Chicago, trying desperately to survive and to overcome the myriad of things that pull 95 per cent of all the people around him down...
Those beefy chorines in numbered jerseys are really Los Angeles Rams Cody Jones, Fred Dryer, Bob Klein, Merlin Olsen, Larry Brooks, Tom Mack, Bill Nelson and Jack Youngblood. The players are holding hands because they are rehearsing a high-kick production number with Dancer Cissie Wellman Donner, all for the sake of a Nov. 19 multiple sclerosis fund-raising benefit in L.A. Come show time, the boys will look even more terpsichorean, according to Costumer Barbara Zelin. Besides pink tutus, "the fellows will wear low-cut white tank tops with their numbers in pink sequins, white tights to show...
...this sounds like the end of the movie, bear in mind that its title is Let's Do It Again. The whole caper is recycled. Poitier and Cosby are hauled back to New Orleans by Kansas City Mack (John Amos) and his boys, who feel they got bilked and want to work the same ploy on a rival gambler named Biggie Smalls (Calvin Lockhart). Now this is not a movie with jokes to spare. By the time Poitier and Cosby have rerun their plot, the meager supply has been totally exhausted. So has the audience...