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For, finally, this wickedly complex movie is not to be taken literally. It is not an inside look at organized crime any more than it is a study of the joys and dangers of sexual obsession. It is a parable of generational conflict in Director Huston's most sardonic (or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Taking the Loyalty Oaf Prizzi's Honor | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

Audiences have been building, meanwhile, for Desperately Seeking Susan, a funny, likable film comedy in which Madonna co-stars (with Rosanna Arquette) as a rambunctious East Village vagabond whose free life becomes the obsession of a repressed New Jersey housewife. Madonna's current 28-city, 38-date concert tour, of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Madonna Rocks the Land | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

Image is an obsession. "There's no such thing as a fat yuppie," says Gene Street, principal owner of SRO, a fashionable Dallas restaurant and bar that features full-length mirrors in the men's lounge. "It's all part of a wave of self-love," says Author-Humorist Fran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Water, Water Everywhere | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

Like few other Hollywood directors, this one embraced multitudes: Gunga Din and James Dean, Cary Grant and Anne Frank. Exploiting the movies' passion for teamwork, he wrote gags for Laurel and Hardy, struck the first sparks for Tracy and Hepburn, directed Fred and Ginger in their most sublime pas de...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Real People in a Reel Peephole | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

Don't be fooled by the novel's obsession with death, culture, freedom, sex and sanity. White Noise is not some peevish tabloid revision of 1984. The book never stays sour and it never makes the tiring (because irrefutable) claim that TV has become the average man's Big Brother...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Welcome to America! | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

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