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Other numbers -- North American box-office grosses -- speak for themselves. Six Star Trek movies: $450 million. Three Naked Gun farces from the short- lived '80s series Police Squad: $200 million. Two episodes of Wayne's World spun out of an SNL skit: $170 million. Two of The Addams Family features: $160 million. Toss in a few movie series based on TV shows based on comic books -- two Batman ($410 million), four Superman ($400 million) and three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies ($250 million) -- and you have a portfolio that could make any film studio healthy now and for years...
...matter, top ensemble acting or brilliant writing offers little to the TV-to-movie grave robbers. Their motto might be "Why the best?" So from the '60s, the moguls choose The Fugitive over East Side, West Side; from the '70s, The Brady Bunch, not Mary Tyler Moore; from the '80s, Police Squad instead of Hill Street Blues; and from the '90s, Beavis and Butt-head rather than The Simpsons...
Then came the thin, pale, intensely lyrical paintings of the early '80s, which spin away the congestion altogether, and for a few years recapitulate the graphic intensity of his work in the 1940s, but in terms of an almost Chinese delicacy, in the colors of famille-rose porcelain. Looking at them is like seeing an old man's veins through his skin: the abiding network of the style is set forth, but in its last physical form...
Borrowers allege that Dime set up a loanprogram in the late '80s called the "no documentloan program" which ensured loan approval within48-hours. Vital information about those who tookout loans was not verified under this system
...been destroyed through the war or neutralized thereafter." Rolf Ekeus, chairman of the U.N. monitoring team, believes Baghdad's chemical programs have been dismantled. Ekeus is also confident that his men have accounted for all 890 Scud-B missiles Iraq bought from the Soviet Union during the 1970s and '80s. But he still has doubts that Iraq has destroyed its biological-weapons program...