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...Rosenbloom's determination will be pitted in the Super Bowl against a carefully constructed football team coached by Chuck Noll that may be the finest in the history of the game. The family franchise in Pittsburgh is as peaceful as the Rams' is stormy. Owner Art Rooney Sr., 78, has turned over the operation of the Steelers to his two sons. Dan, 46, team president, runs the business side. Art Jr., 43, is a vice president and the man who has assembled a marvelously balanced team led by Quarterback Terry Bradshaw, 32, who survived his trial by fire...
...will take some doing. The Steelers, Art Rooney Jr. said last week, "are like the great Yankee teams used to be. The peer pressure is very strong. Just putting on the uniform motivates a player to perform beyond his potential." At week's end, the Steelers were 11-point favorites to keep right on winning...
...going to make you a star when you're 5 ft. 8 in. and he is 5 ft. 3 in. So Singer-Dancer Ann Jillian, 29, opening a nightclub act last week at Manhattan's Reno Sweeney, looked down-sweetly-on Mickey Rooney, who had got her booking. Since he first spotted Jillian two years ago, Rooney has also wangled her a part as a showgirl in his Broadway hit Sugar Babies and a role in the upcoming movie, Panic on the Potomac, in which they will both play spacepersons who land in Washington. Jillian is described...
...Ballard's sumptuous images exist only to distract from his rather conventional failings of craftsmanship. The ruse does not succeed. Though the freckle-faced Reno and Mickey Rooney (as the horse's crafty old trainer) are well cast, then-scenes together are perfunctory and impersonal. Emotions are provided in stead by a busy and overbearing musical score. The film's story begins to move in fits and starts. Except for the inevitable big race, it is not advanced visually but by bald snatches of voice-over dialogue. No doubt children in the audience will have a fine...
Even Mickey admits that Mickey can be difficult. His present wife, a country-and-western singer whose performing name is Jan Chamberlin, lived with him several years before she agreed to become the eighth Mrs. Rooney. "Naturally, I was frightened because of his track record," she says. "I still am." Their chief problems center on her singing. Mickey tries to run her career for her. "He wants the complete say-so about everything," she sighs. While he has been touring with Sugar Babies, Jan, 40, has stayed at their home, just north of Los Angeles, which they share with...