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...hours of NBC's prime time had mostly rural appeal and skewed older. Its lead-in shows were utterly incompatible; first Walking Tall, then B.J. and the Bear. If you can find one person in America who actually watched all three shows, we should give him a Hill Street jacket or something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Coming Up From Nowhere | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

Lawrence (Tom Hanks) can perhaps be excused his momentary petulance. After all, he has been forced to borrow his roommate's identity and Peace Corps credentials and flee Far Eastward to escape gambling debts on the very night of his Yale graduation. Why, he is still wearing his dinner jacket. His first seatmate on the flight has been "Tom Tuttle from Tacoma" (John Candy), who reads books about maximizing his potential capital-wise and is the most egregious go-getter since Babbitt. His next is Beth Wexler (Rita Wilson), who rejects a night and a day of advances, to Lawrence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Up-Country Without a Paddle Volunteers | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

Verba, who bought his first tweed jacket when he was an undergraduate at Harvard, said he thought M magazine chose him for the photo feature because "I haven't changed what I've been wearing over the years since my undergraduate days." He said he's thinks he's had the pictured jacket since college...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Sidney Verba Named One of Nation's Tweediest Professors | 7/26/1985 | See Source »

...paint Marty in Guess jeans and jacket, Polo shirt, and Nike sneakers. Then give him a fiberglass skateboard and watch him catch rides on the backs of passing cars. So far, everything here is pretty straight-forward. No Ewoks, no Yodas...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Back to Basics | 7/19/1985 | See Source »

...maybe not so curious. Spielberg has that tonic effect on a lot of people. Prowling the bustling Amazing Stories set in his blue baseball cap, brown leather bomber jacket, salmon-colored jeans, pink socks and gray running shoes with SPIELBERG stamped on the heels, the Mogul of Magic looks just old enough to be the classmate-coach at a college touch-football scrimmage. He has time for everyone, with a few jokes in between: "TV stands for Tender Vittles. That's what we're givin' 'em, folks, Tender Vittles." Spielberg's noncombative vitality infects everyone he works with. Says Richard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: I Dream for a Living | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

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