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...Michael Dukakis for the Hispanic vote, Reagan met with Hispanic newsmen and assured them of Bush's "warm feelings with regard to Hispanics." Reagan barnstormed through southeastern Missouri last week, labeling Democrats "trench-coat liberals" and darkly warning that a Dukakis presidency would resemble the horror film Nightmare on Elm Street...
Freddy Krueger is America' s favorite homicidal maniac, and his Nightmare on Elm Street 4 is a late- summer box- office slash...
...school janitor in Springwood, U.S.A., where his hobby was kidnaping and murdering teenagers. Tried for these crimes, he was freed on a technicality: "Oh, the lawyers got fat and the judge got famous, but somebody forgot to sign the search warrant in the right place." So the parents of Elm Street tracked the demon down to his boiler room and burned him -- to death, some...
...striped sweater and right-hand glove with steel "finger-knives," he lures each sleeping adolescent to a convenient boiler room (every building in town has one) or into their grungiest fears. And if they don't wake up in time, he executes them. Kind of harrowing, the number of Elm Street kids who die in their sleep. As one boy says, "It's not exactly a safe place to be a teenager...
...very teens he would menace. Freddy Krueger would never have won the Mr. Congeniality award at Springwood High, but at the box office he has matured into Most Likely to Succeed. As embodied by Actor Robert Englund, he is the star of New Line Cinema's A Nightmare on Elm Street series. Each sequel has outgrossed its predecessor, financially as well as filmically, with the first three installments cadging more than $100 million. And the new entry, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, has, in Variety's cheery phrase, "slashed its way into b.o. history." The picture...