Word: film
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glorification, but it is difficult to forgive Martin, whose idiosyncratic combination of spasticism and smoothness--which earned him his first taste of stardom while on the club circuit might still work if he hadn't taken the jack-of-all-trades route. But Steve the Screenwriter insisted of confronting film, while the Comedian must have observed in silent protest. The Screenwriter concocted an hour-and-a-half-long one-minute joke, and he undoubtedly ended up with the last and perhaps only laugh--the moviegoer certainly doesn...
Reagan ended his Iowa campaign as nonchalantly as he had conducted it. On caucus day, he was home in Pacific Palisades, Calif. That night, while the votes were being counted, he went to a friend's house to see the film Kramer vs. Kramer. He learned of the results from a TV reporter who came to call. Reagan's second-place finish was a setback for John Sears, his highly touted strategist, who had kept his leading candidate out of the fray and especially out of Iowa. In August, Reagan led in the polls with...
...center, which also has facilities for art and film, is adjacent to the college and blends in admirably with it. The theater, which seats 492 people, is comfortable and intimate. It has been decorated in earth colors: beige, rust, burnt orange. In contrast, the ceiling consists of dramatically large black and white alternating panels...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Cheryl Ladd, 28, the Charlie's Angel who replaced Farrah Fawcett on the TV series; from David Ladd, 32, film producer and son of the late movie star Alan Ladd; after seven years of marriage, one daughter; in Los Angeles...
While moviegoers have been weeping this winter over the wrenching divorce drama Kramer vs. Kramer, lawyers have been shaking their heads. Their plaint is not that the couple's attorneys in the film are the least appealing characters since the Wicked Witch of the West, but that the courtroom scenes are legally out of date. Meryl Streep, playing a restless housewife trying to find fulfillment, has walked out on her marriage to Dustin Hoffman, a hustling young Manhattan adman, leaving him with their young son; 18 months later she wins custody of the child despite the husband...