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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first industry angels were Eugene Harvey and Seymour Flics, then concert promoters, now Whitney's zealous managers and jealous protectors. In 1981 the team devised a game plan: they would develop acting and modeling as adjuncts to the music. Soon Whitney was doing a Canada Dry commercial and TV's Silver Spoons and Gimme a Break. She had already been cutting classes at her private Catholic girls' school to model for the Click agency. She later switched to Wilhelmina and appeared in Glamour and Vogue. Meanwhile she was sharing club dates with Cissy. Finally, at 18, she was ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Prom Queen of Soul | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

That joke is the idea of a man who thinks he is a dog. During a North woods blizzard, jealous Reggie Shand (Christopher Lloyd) literally left his infant brother Robert to the wolves. Now, 30 years later, Penny (Amy Steel), a pretty young scientist, discovers "Bobo" (Mandel), whom the wolves have raised as one of their own. She returns Bobo to the Shand household, thwarting Reggie's plan to appropriate his brother's inheritance, now that he has squandered his own. Penny spends the rest of the movie trying to teach Bobo to act like a person, while Reggie tries...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Walk Like a Man | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...like almost all college experiences, the angst had its redeeming qualities: "True we were jealous maniacs and looked at each other's accomplishments as part of a zero-sum game: You win, I lose," Schumer writes. "But it was because of the turmoil we were in that our friendships during that period were so rich and intense...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: The Edge of the Cliffe: | 4/29/1987 | See Source »

...parody of Sam Shepard's Lie of the Mind. In an informal interview, Durang said he was inspired to write Stye of the Eye because of the effusive praise the critics ladled onto what he felt was a pretentiously obscure and hateful play. But Durang let his perhaps jealous anger get away from him, and so occasionally the satire sinks to the level of characters shouting at the audience, "See! This is a symbol! It's supposed to mean something!" The audience survives only because Durang finds a way once again to insert more mini-parodies, one of which...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: The Weird Kid In The Classroom | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

When America last saw David Addison and Maddie Hayes, things seemed to be coming to a head for the sparring detectives and almost lovers of ABC's Moonlighting. Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) has a dashing new boyfriend (Mark Harmon), but realizes that David (Bruce Willis) is jealous. Will the two finally get together? If the show's fans are holding their breath for an answer, they may turn blue before it arrives. The four-part episode that is supposed to resolve the problem began airing on Feb. 3. Seven weeks and four repeat episodes later, the conclusion is still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Moonlighting on The Edge | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

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