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...always put on a great show, but until recently it has been mostly onstage, not onscreen. At the dawn of her solo career 15 years ago, Bette (rhymes with pet, sweat, coquette and martinet but never regret) declared her intention to become a "legend." She made good on the boast with a song- and-comedy act that elicited raucous laughs and heaving sobs on both sides of the footlights. She was the Callas of Camp, peppering her program with naughty jokes in the spirit of Mae West and Sophie Tucker. Midler's good-timey raunch made her famous...
...control of the galaxy? Alarming as that possibility may sound, parents had better get ready for just such a commotion. The toy industry is racing to deliver a new generation of playthings that can communicate electronically with specially created TV programs, enabling youngsters with hand-held weapons to zap onscreen villains and even coordinate living-room battles with the action on the tube. "It's exciting, it's magic. It looks and smells like the next trend in the toy industry," says Thomas Kalinske, president of toymaker Mattel. The interactive playthings are expected to be the hottest draw next week...
...there the similarity ends. Five minutes of every Captain Power show will be devoted to battle scenes in which viewers can take part in the campaign against the villainous Lord Dread. Wielding a toy spaceship called the PowerJet XT-7, a child at home can electronically duel with onscreen enemies...
...Method acting class, was Captain Dale Dye, 42, a retired Marine Corps lifer who served as the film's technical adviser. He vowed to "give some of these soft city kids a crash course in jungle fighting." Tall and ruggedly handsome, with an aura of laconic authority, Dye appears onscreen in Platoon as the captain who calls in an air strike on his own defeated position...
Radio Days is only really poignant, though, for those who spent their childhoods in 1930s Brooklyn. The rest of us have to take our emotional cues from the perpetually overcast scenery. So Allen, who does not appear onscreen, has to tell us in a voice-over that his hometown "wasn't always this stormy and wind-swept. But that's the way I remember it, because that's when it was the most beautiful...