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...McGee and Harrington thought they were having problems with the likes of State Reps. Mel B. King and Barney Frank '62, they have no idea what Saundra Graham could mean for the climate under the golden dome...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: The Good Guy Finally Won | 11/6/1976 | See Source »

...ones who hate it. My junior roommate from Rochester, New York, really a marvelous guy and a cineaste to boot, just couldn't see why this was so funny. (Senator Moynihan would try to tell him Eth-nic-ity, but that's not the answer.) This was Mel Brooks' first feature and it reaches heights Catskillian. Surely if one had the chance to show a class of Martians any ten American comedies, this would be included in the green syllabus because, as Alex Haley might point out, of its roots. Like tumescent udders (ech!) Mel Brooks's toors hang, full...

Author: By Jonathan Zeitlin, | Title: FILM | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

...taking a vehicle"-the term usually applied to joyriding. Then William Harris stopped smiling. Harris, 31, and his wife Emily, 29, listened impassively as they were found guilty of two counts of kidnaping and one of armed robbery for incidents connected with the shooting fracas in 1974 at Mel's Sporting Goods Store in Los Angeles. When sentenced later this month, the two still defiant members of the Symbionese Liberation Army-and Patty Hearst's old traveling companions -could be sent to jail for life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Three for the Books | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

...heiress's involvement with the tiny sect of S.L.A. terrorists. As for Patty, she is still undergoing psychiatric testing in San Diego while awaiting sentencing for bank robbery. She also remains under indictment on the same charges brought against the Harrises as a result of the incident at Mel's Sporting Goods Store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Three for the Books | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

Natalie (Capitol). From the end of the '40s until well into the '60s, the late Nat "King" Cole held sway with mel low, foggy-voiced renditions of easygoing ballads like Too Young and Red Sails in the Sunset. Last year Daughter Natalie, 26, released her debut album In separable and picked up a pair of Grammys for her trouble. Cole's second LP confirms a talent that makes her a strong contender for Aretha Franklin's title as queen of soul pop. At her best getting down with hand-clapping, shooby-dooby funk, Cole tends toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tops in Pops | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

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