Checkered Flag or Crash promoter Bo Cochran (Hagman) wants the race completed by any means necessary. Checkered Flag or Crash Checkered Flag or Crash is a 1977 American adventure comedy film about off-road racing through the Philippines jungle, starring Joe Don Baker and Susan Sarandon and featuring Larry Hagman, Alan Vint and Parnelli Jones. It was written by Michael Allin and directed by Alan Gibson. Hard-charging race car driver "Walkaway" Madden (Baker), nicknamed that because of his history of walking away from car crashes, just wants to win the big Manilla 1000 off-road race. Photojournalist C.C. Wainwright (Sarandon) intends to ride with him in
Susan Close leader, with Close as deputy, following a Labor caucus meeting on 9 April 2018. Susan Close Susan Elizabeth Close is an Australian politician, serving as deputy leader of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party following the 2018 state election. First elected to the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Port Adelaide at the 2012 by-election, she held Cabinet portfolios in the Weatherill Ministry from 2014 to 2018. Close earned a PhD in political science at Flinders University where she had studied French, Italian and biology as well as politics in her BA. She graduated from Blackwood