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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...COMEDIAN who isn't funny, Steve Martin has made quite a career for himself With the money he's made from Saturday Night Live, movie appearances, and records, you'd think he could finally afford to hire writers to make his material funny, but no--Martin is an individualist, and insists on continuing his frantic pursuit of the banal...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Cruelty to Animals | 9/13/1979 | See Source »

...this book may leave you a little scared. There are people out there who did find it funny, whose patronage has brought it near the pinnacle of the New York Times Bestseller List. You can't know whether they're the harmless people who make Disney World profitable or the types who giggle as they pull wings off dead flies in their basements...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Cruelty to Animals | 9/13/1979 | See Source »

Smith was granted immunity from treason charges so he could make the trip to England. He could have been prosecuted for his role in the Rhodesian independence movement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smith Arrives For Conference | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

MALICE AND AMBITION do not adhere to Alan Alda's face. Alda the screenwriter forgot that Alda the actor looks like a waiter in Chinatown begging for a big tip--his squinting, ever-genial countenance belies the selfish, insatiable drive that defines his hero, Senator-on-the-make Joe Tynan. The words of the screenplay may fit, but Alda can't take up the Nice Man's Burden: Hawkeye can't play Macbeth...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: The Seduction of Hawkeye | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...Court nominee while performing stress tests on their new Posturepedic. Streep, tackling with stunning confidence an entirely different role from that she played in The Deer Hunter, evinces a magnetic attraction to power. In her first conversation with Tynan, she says, "When I think of the splash you could make with this, I just get weak in the knees...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: The Seduction of Hawkeye | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

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