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...Williams, who was 26 when Mork & Mindy went on the air. In addition to too much trivial sex, there was too much vodka and bourbon and way too much cocaine. "It was like symbiotic abuse. It was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Williams. The bloated fish," he calls his early-'80s self. "The Michelin poster child...
...scholars observed last week, the '70s was the decade of terrorism and the '80s the decade of hostages, there is sure to be a new nightmare waiting. This chapter, now nearly closed, is not the end in a part of the world where all too often old hatreds die hard, people are pawns, and lives are meant for sacrificing. Two Germans remain imprisoned, and all accounts remain unsettled. But after all this, perhaps it is not too much to hope that last week brought a portent of peace to a waiting world tired of weeping over the opportunities...
While his team would endure tough times in the mid-'80s, Slater reached the pinnacle of his career in 1990, when the Red Raiders advanced to the Final Four before finally being knocked off by Wisconsin in the championship game. That year, Colgate amassed a school record 36 wins, and Slater was voted NCAA Hockey Coach of the Year...
...happens, Bonfire was only an ordinarily bad film and an ordinary box- office bomb; Robert Redford's Havana cost as much and earned far less. The reason Bonfire was a goner from the git-go is that it was based on the one '80s novel every media savant had read and, mentally, already filmed. Even a reverent adaptation would have been fitted with an Armani shroud...
Pity the poor TV innovator; his work is never done. Steven Bochco changed the course of network TV in the early '80s with his breakthrough cop show Hill Street Blues. He opened new areas of provocative subject matter a few years later with his yuppie drama L.A. Law. Those hits were enough to convince ABC that Bochco was worth a long-term gamble: in 1987 the network signed him to a contract worth $50 million, to develop 10 series during the next decade. Then Bochco had to face a really tricky problem: how to top himself...