Word: companions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Berger's dinner companion, a high school friend from Cincinnati, agrees it's time for Orientation Week...
...most memorable moment came when he strolled with the penguins at San Diego's Sea World. The emperor and king penguins occasionally proved less than hospitable to their new companion. Standing hip high, with beaks the size of small kitchen knives, the penguins repeatedly tried to jab Willwerth's legs. Fortunately, the Sea World curator managed to rescue TIME's roving correspondent before any damage was done. As for feeding Kito, Willwerth cannot remember another source that ate quite so quickly. His only challenge remains how to list an acacia tree on his expense account...
Michelle Pfeiffer, an Oscar nominee this year for Dangerous Liaisons, makes her stage debut as the grieving countess Olivia. Jeff Goldblum (The Fly) is her pettish steward Malvolio, John Amos (Roots) her drunken uncle Sir Toby Belch and Gregory Hines (The Cotton Club) Toby's companion in ribaldry, the jester Feste. Stephen Collins (Tattinger's) is the duke who desires Olivia, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (The Color of Money) the girl-masquerading-as- a -pageboy sent to plead his case. Among other screen and stage stalwarts rounding out the troupe is Charlaine Woodard (Ain't Misbehavin') as the merrily scheming...
...memory. Last September TV Guide's parent company, Triangle Publications, was sold by Walter Annenberg to Australian-born press magnate Rupert Murdoch for $3 billion. Murdoch, whose worldwide properties range from tabloids like the Star to the London Times, has instigated some wrenching changes in the familiar coffee-table companion...
Garrison Keillor is still best known as the host, head minstrel and founding fabulist of public radio's weekly Prairie Home Companion, which went off the air almost two years ago. But the shock, for a radio fan leafing through this collection, is to discover, perhaps not for the first or fifth time, that his hero is even more gifted as writer than as entertainer. In a superb story called What Did We Do Wrong?, the first woman major-league baseball player hits .300 but slobbers tobacco juice, gives fans the finger and can't deal with the hot-breathed...