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...other hand, Royko, played by Burt Young (Adrienne's chunky brother in Rocky), is believeable, since he does not seem to take either the killings of the movie too seriously. A Chicago cop, intruding with his grubby humor and lack of tack on the mellow L.A. police force, he thrives by maintaining a detached attitude to all the goings on. After the police dig where a woman disappeared, he scoops up a bloody round object, plops it in a baggie, and yells to the woman's lover, "hey, what color eyes does she have--un, did she have...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: Geritol Case | 2/4/1981 | See Source »

...PARTY IS GROWING by leaps and bounds--Joe Restic has arrived, With Martin Kilson, Laurence Tribe, Yen-Tsai Feng and John Clive. A wave of the pen towards Douglas Marlette, Victor Kohutka and John Jenrette. A garland of holly for Stanislaw Baranczak, For William F. Buckley and also Burt Bachrach. In Cambridge we drink to the Sullivans' city--David's, Walter's, James's, and Al Vellucci's. Bottle upon bottle, we'll uncork the Veuve Clicquot And raise our glasses in the air for everyone we know. For A. Simone Reagor, Eugene Genovese, Lyndon Larouche and Aglaia Senese...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Christmas Phantasm | 12/18/1980 | See Source »

...high-ranking bureaucrats they had expected. Sales made at the show were a small $21 million, and contracts for $3.8 million more were under negotiation at the close of the fair. Grumman International, for example, displayed buses, fire engines and light aluminum trucks, but it received no orders. Said Burt Stern, Grumman's senior vice president: "We found little overt interest in our products. We know it takes time, and we hope that some of the information we gave out will drift back into the right places. Maybe something will happen from there." Still, Chinese curiosity about American products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Nobody Buys | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

Hirsh believes that sexy ads may distract consumers: they "don't hear how good the product is," he says. J. Walter Thompson's U.S. chairman Burt Manning has another concern. His worry: "Numbers of viewers are going to conclude that 'only a flaky segment of society would respond to that kind of advertising. I don't want to be like those people, so I'm not going to wear that kind of brand.' " The products will be noticed, he says, but the ads will be turning consumers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Bum's Rush in Advertising | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

SEEKING DIVORCE. Angle Dickinson, 49, star of TV (Police Woman) and movies (Dressed to Kill); and Burt Bacharach, 51, composer (Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, What the World Needs Now); after 15 years of marriage and four years of separation, one child, a daughter, Nikki, 14, whose custody Dickinson is requesting; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 1, 1980 | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

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