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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie has been adapted. The author set out to investigate the murder, never officially solved, of Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, Kenya's most notorious womanizer (played in the film by a subtly predatory Charles Dance). Fox concluded that the murderer was Sir John Henry ("Jock") Delves Broughton (Joss Ackland), a man phlegmatically devoted to squandering a fortune. Broughton's motive was jealousy. It seems that Diana, his beautiful young wife (Greta Scacchi, who projects a movie rarity, authentic sensuality), had married him mostly to hurry him along through the rest of his capital, and had been openly carrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Way Out in Africa WHITE MISCHIEF | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

Another example of the reviewer's carelessness is the obvious misunderstanding of the character of "Patty." Krause writes that Jennifer Joss has mistakenly portrayed Patty as "a shallow, bubbly, valley girl" when she should be an "irritating tomboy." In fact, it is Krause who is mistaken. The character of "Patty" in the musical is based on Schultz's earlier and entirely different character of "Patty," not on the more recent comic strip character, "Peppermint Patty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Condescension | 5/14/1986 | See Source »

...psychiatrist that we've come to expect. Blanket-armed Linus (Ron Duvernay), Lucy's brother, is an intellectual version of the picked-on innocent. And Schroeder (Biggs) and his piano, are sweetly in line with the musical prodigy Schultz penned. The only unrecognizable old-timer is Peppermint Patty (Jennifer Joss). In the strip she is a loveably irritating tomboy. Joss turns her into a shallow, bubbly valley-girl...

Author: By Peter C. Krause, | Title: Baby Peanuts | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

Jennifer F. Joss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1985 Candidates for Harvard Class Marshal | 10/2/1985 | See Source »

...great." It's almost hard to imagine a player today saying "golly," unless he said something like, "golly, I really think I'm worth 1.5 million a year," or, "golly, forget the team, I just hope I play well." Strange stories of great players with phenomenal names like Addie Joss. Willie Keeler, Bugs Raymond, Chick Golloway--names that sound like baseball players' names--are told with great enthusiasm, and recall a bygone, homegrown age when sore arms were treated with a mixture of vaseline and tobacco sauce...

Author: By T. NICHOLAS Dawidoff, | Title: They Stopped Too Soon | 1/11/1985 | See Source »

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