Word: guested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tragedy. Built in 1973 at a cost of $106 million, the MGM Grand met the require ments of the county building code in effect at the time by installing sprinkler systems only in the basement and on the first and top floors. There were no smoke detectors in the guest rooms. A new code requiring sprinklers on every floor and the use of smoke detectors was passed...
...mood was somber, almost melancholy, and the parting was a bit like two boxers shaking hands at the end of a bruising fight. After lunch and a final talk in the White House last week, President Carter cordially thanked his guest for the "very fruitful and constructive relationship" they had had. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, in turn, praised Carter's "friendship, help and candor." The words were the warmest that the two men had spoken publicly about each other during four years of an intensely strained relationship. Said one of Schmidt's aides afterward: "They are probably...
Based on the bestselling novel by Judith Guest, Redford's first directorial effort takes place in one of the wealthiest spots in the country, Lake Forest, Illinois, and the "ordinary" people are the Jarret family: Calvin, the father (Sutherland), a successful tax attorney and ineffectual nice guy; Beth, the mother (Moore), a gracious but icily repressed suburbanite; and Conrad, their son (Hutton), who spent four months in a mental hospital after slashing his wrists. Conrad's troubles unfold slowly: his older brother Buck (mother's favorite) died in a boating accident which Conrad survived. Beth "buried the best...
Actually, the 38-year-old comedian seems quite nonplussed. He is in L.A. for one of his frequent appearances on The Tonight Show, this time as guest host. What does he think about Johnny's new shortened one-hour format? "Well, I think they kept it to ninety-minute money," he grins...
...Radio is peculiarly well suited to talk shows," he observes. "That is, if you have a guest who can talk. William Shatner and Persis Khambatta came on to plug Star Trek--The Motion Picture. I didn't see the film. They didn't want the press to see a screening--the assholes...