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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Toughest Test for Civil Libertarians Comedian Andrew Dice Clay flaunted his street-punk misogyny so outrageously that his concert film was withdrawn by 20th Century Fox and his appearance as host of Saturday Night Live prompted two women performers to walk out. Meanwhile, liberals defended to the death his right to say things they wish he'd just shut up about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Most of Show Business | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

...them both. Peters theorizes that the Great Profile was "androgynous . . . To mask his vulnerability, he adopted a supermasculine pose: hard-drinking, profane, whoring, cynical. He lived in terror of being unmasked." Yet drunk or hung over -- which was most of the time -- John became a matinee idol, a superb comedian and the most celebrated Hamlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Royal Family | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

Hope received her bachelor's degree from Wellesley College in 1961, and her law degree from Harvard in 1964. Hope is the daughter-in-law of comedian Bob Hope...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH COMMITTEE | 10/4/1990 | See Source »

...challenged his theory as implausible, and the two of them decided to investigate further. They discovered that Millette, who was found drowned shortly after Bern's death, suffered not from a coma but from acute schizophrenia. But nothing shook the finding of suicide until Marx met a minor comedian who had been a drinking pal of retired MGM security chief Whitey Hendry's. Hendry, shortly before his death, told this pal that he had accompanied Mayer to Bern's house that first morning, and it was obvious that Bern had been murdered. Mayer was terrified of scandal. So Hendry volunteered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shedunit DEADLY ILLUSIONS by Samuel Marx and Joyce Vanderveen | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...TALL GUY. Jeff Goldblum is a lanky second banana to an overbearing comedian (Rowan Atkinson); Emma Thompson is the woman who slips on the peel of the tall guy's goofy allure. Keep your expectations low, and enjoy this deft British trifle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 24, 1990 | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

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