Word: ragamuffin
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DIED. Jackie Coogan, 69, the actor who became the movies' first blockbuster child star when, at age six, he played the moonfaced ragamuffin in Charlie Chaplin's 1921 classic The Kid; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif. The son of vaudevillians, Coogan starred in such vehicles as Peck's Bad Boy (1921) and Tom Sawyer (1930), and in 1923 was voted America's most popular movie actor. "Other boys went to see Babe Ruth," he recalled a half-century later. "Babe Ruth came to see me." Though he had made more than $2 million...
...year career selling soda in St. Louis' Sportsman's Park; in Cincinnati. In 1944, DeWitt, general manager of the hapless St. Louis Browns, helped drive the team to its first and only pennant. His astute trades while general manager of the Cincinnati Reds helped "the Ragamuffin Reds" clinch the pennant in 1961, the club's first in 21 years...
...again last week, in class, working. The night before, she had drawn her customary bravos at A.B.T.'s Lincoln Center opening program and then, with Schafer and some friends, lingered at a West Side restaurant until 2 a.m. Now, with four hours of sleep behind her, Gelsey is a ragamuffin hiding from attention, swathed in a tentlike brown tunic and baggy sweat pants. The rehearsal piano pounds away, and Howard's piercing voice ("Now up, now up, now up ") guides some 90 students through a long series of stretches and drills. Morning sunlight pours through the tall windows...
Jimmy Cliff, a Jamaican rock singer, plays Ivan, the country boy who comes to the city determined to become a top singer of "reggae" [what polite Jamaicans used to call ragamuffin music; it is a sort of synthesis of American rock and Jamaican native sounds]. Cliff found his way to shantytown from a little village in the country. He came to Kingston to go to technical school, quit after a very short while, and then hustled himself into the music business. For him, The Harder they Come is really part of the hustle...
Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me gives this destructive dynamic still another odd twist. Truffaut makes Camille look and sound like a tomboy version of the ragamuffin youngsters who populate such chapters of his cinematic autobiography as Bed and Board. Camille's innocence, however, is chiding, manipulative, a weapon wielded with instinctual skill against a battery of eager victims...