Word: berkley
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Screenwriter JOE ESZTERHAS is a family-minded man. After all, his wife had his fourth child just last Thursday. And he thinks his new movie, Showgirls, starring ELIZABETH BERKLEY, is fine family fare even though it's rated NC-17. "Not to allow high school kids to hear a very moral message simply because it's set in the world of nude dancing is just pious nonsense," says Eszterhas, who suggests teens use fake IDs to get in. Many kids no doubt appreciate the tip, but Motion Picture Association of America head Jack Valenti doesn't. He told USA Today...
...Berkley's overwrought performance as Nomi is the final insult. The former "Saved By The Bell" actress makes you long for the wit and subtlety of Sharon Stone's crotch-flashing in "Basic Instinct." Berkley's version of the cliched femme fatale is all pants and snarls, without a hint of irony. As for the male characters, they remain locked in even more unsavory cliches: pockmarked pimp, hustler-with-a-heart-of-gold...
...four years, Chester Szuber, 58, of Berkley, Michigan, waited in a long line for someone to provide a heart for the transplant he desperately needed to survive. He finally won a new lease on life last week, but from a singularly tragic source. His daughter Patti, 22, was fatally injured in a car crash, long after signing an organ-donor card, thus allowing surgeons to put her compatible heart in her father's body...
Harvard kicks off its 135th season at the San Diego Classic--its first taste of boat-to-boat competition since the Head of the Charles Regatta. The race, held April 9 and 10, features crews from arch-rival Yale and Princeton along with UCLA, University of Washington, Cal-Berkley and Stanford...
...only four years after the Free Speech Movement at Berkley then, and there was much more support for free speech in the sixties than there is in the nineties. Roy Bercaw