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'sunset" legislation
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LOVE AMONG THE RUINS: Sylvester Stallone and Talia Shire before the Big Boxing Match in
“Rocky." Thia film, aa this week’s article points out, may well be the white backlash to “Roots ”
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"Your Shoos Are In Our Window"
Boren to live up
definition of reform.
NEW YORK (UPD - Seven
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spring meeting of National
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Comp Bill Still Pending
By HARRY CULVER ture in history," he Mid. increases benefits. He conceded
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) - He Mid whether the legists there likely will be some
Oklahoma's legislature opens ture fits that description increase in insurance rates
the final three days of the 1177 depends on whether the work- The lobby disclosure bill has
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Boren listed a workers legislative days Wednesday million The common school
compensation bill at the top of A conference committee has and college bills, which will
the list, along with a lobby reached agreement on a work- take nearly two-thirds of the
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with the progress of this tiously predicted it will pass Also awaiting final action are
session.” he Mid, pointing to Boren called it a "good bill." a teachers retirement bill, an
passage of bills covering auto but "not perfect." He Mid it open meetings law. an eyeglass
tags, unemployment compensa- contains several features he price advertising bill, a public
tion, solar energy, and had insisted were essential He trust bill and several other
Now You Know
By United Press International
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‘Rocky’: The Great White Hope
"Editor * Note: Jerry Holt Is lot, and puts "ya know what 1 based on the Chuck “Bleeder" agents. "Rocky" caters strictly
an instructor in the English mean1" on the end of every Wepner and Muhammed Ali to moviegoers who have been
Department at the University of sentence Rocky keeps pet fish clash of 1975 Wepner fell 20 burning with anger over in-
Science .nd Arts of Oklahoma. Rocky loves an ugly girl (Talia seconds short of going the full 15 tergration, busing, and Equal
oPinions expressed byShire) who will later become The Oscar peopie—an Opportunity for as long as they
cotamatet are their own and not magically pretty Rocky gets audiences seem to believe that can remember-, an for that
necessarily concurred in by The chewed out by the loan shark “Rocky" is a beautiful, moral crowd, every punch that Rocky
Daily Express or the ad- because he neglected to break storyto take the kids to (it’s PG) lands might as well have been
ministration at USAO.) some poor devil s thumb because it shows that the little thrown at the Supreme Court. I
SUCKER PUNCH Movies All that takes a good hour man keeps fighting, no matter have no idea what you will think
that win the Oscar—like Then the Muhammad Ali how many times he gets of the movie, but I’ll bet Lester
"Rocky" did- are usually films charcter (Cari Weathers' enters knocked down Stallone himself. Maddox loved it.
that I put off seeing as long as the film, a black champ who is apparently. is a little more
possible I have found that going to ring in the Bicentennial canny than that in a recent There are redeeming
particular annual award to be a year by beating somebody's interview with “Writer's Qualities Burgess Meredith has
good index to how rotten the brains out in the City of Digest." he claims that in his a nice performance as an over-
cinema can get, and this little Brotherly Love Unfortunately, first draft of the script, Rocky the-hill trainer-but when did
crowd-pleaser is unfortunately, his opponent drops out at the last wound up throwing the fight "I Meredith ever have a bad
no exception monent and the champ decides wrote that first draft for performance1 Talia Shire really
Don't misread me I did call to box an unknown, instead myself." he Mys. "I just wanted is an appealing actress, and
"Rocky" a crowd-pleaser, and it Champ will still win, of course, to do that one time and then 1 Stallone is all right if you find
is My crowd went wild The but. for a while, some poor slob knew that wasn’t what the stupidity a virtue. It must pay to
audience whooped, screamed, is going to get to live out the public wanted to see I wanted to be ignorant: "Rocky” has
shouted. and choked on their American dream write it real for myself and already grossed upwards of 230
i popcorn Those people had an Big Surprise Rocky is the theatrically real for the public " million.
incredibly good time, and I can't poor slob who gets chosesn So. Stallone s script is a lie. Rocky, the character,
begrudge them that it might be Billed as the "Italian Stallion,' and he knows it So what1 Well, repeatedly protests against
constructive, however, to he gets 8 whirlwind publicity how about this1 it really isn't people who take "cheap shots."
examine briefly what all campaign. enters into copious the American blue-collar dream Touching-but even though I
America is having such an incr workouts which consist mostly that people are cheering for at admit to enjoying some of the
dibly good time with of punching out sides of beef in a the end of "Rocky", you know l film. I feel a bit sick about it. A
The script is by meat locker, and finally comes listened to my gang as they left movie that panders to the secret
Sylvester Stallone, who also to realize that he can't beat the the theatre- and they're simply desires of the middle-class
plays Rocky, an aging would-be champ Rocky will be happy, he cheering for their own bigotry bigot— and cleans up for doing
boxer who makes his living tells himself, if he can just go the The white sports fan has been so—has get to be the cheapest r
roughing up debtors for a loan distance-the 15 rounds looking for a good white boxer to shot of all And why use film to
shark Director John Avildson The boxing match itself is long come along for 20 years—and do that sort of thing anyway’
has managed to make lower and bloody, and my audience “Rocky" fulfills that fantasy Isn’t that what we have
class Philadelphia look even took it in the same jovial spirit wonderfully There were no Politicians for?
uglier than lower-class New that the country took, say, the blacks in my audience—and if peeemeeweeee
York, and we get lots of street- Mai Lai massacre I f you can't there had been, I doubt if they INOBODY KNEW that Good Old!
wise sequences at the beginning guess the ending already, you would have been cheering, since IDale Robertson played a J
which add up to very little never saw "Body and Soul' or h|.^ ■- th- film are presented I character named Jim Hardy on,
besides warmed-over “On the "Champion," but I’ll give you a as money mongers, or pawns in I0* "Tales 01 Wells Fargo "I
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Drew, Charles C. The Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 85, No. 72, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 5, 1977, newspaper, June 5, 1977; Chickasha, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1868228/m1/4/: accessed June 9, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.