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Goat Island is a sleeper: a little-publicized, ill housed, low-budget stroke of near genius. There were only a couple of dozen people at Thursday night's opening, maybe because it had the misfortune to coincide with gala premieres at Adams House and the Loeb. But like the sage said: "What's box office...
...bulldozing runner with amazing speed (9.9 sec. for 100 yds.) for his size, McDonald was the leading rusher in college ball, gained 1,329 yds. in 259 plays for an average of better than 5 yds. per carry. "We thought we had a sleeper," moans one scout, "until he scored five touchdowns in one game and got a lot of publicity...
...measure of national interest in this device is a sleeper bestseller titled How to Avoid Probate (Crown; $4.95). Written by Norman F. Dacey, who calls himself "America's best-known estate planner," the hefty paperback consists of a 50-page blast at lawyers and 300 pages of assorted forms that readers are urged to use in setting up revocable living trusts. In Dacey's version, a man puts most of his estate into life insurance, makes a bank trustee but directs the bank to invest the estate in a mutual fund. While the bank pays his heirs...
Hollywood has always been technically expert. It has found the rare director worthy of its resources in Anthony Mann; whose Heroes of Telemark is the sleeper of the year...
Although he is generally satisfied with the Nieman program, "You sometimes get a sleeper in the seminars," he says. "But I guess that would happen in anything like this...