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Welcome to the '80s, the retro Time Warp that tosses all previous decades in a Cuisinart and purees them into The Latest Thing. We are the '30s gone hip, the '40s with leaner muscles, the '50s in Reeboks, the '60s with no sweat. And if movies are the gilded reflection of American popular culture, then a half-century of movies about teenagers traces a curious evolution of the adolescent spirit. The Andy Hardy series gave us romance without passion. The James Dean movies of the '50s offered passion without pleasure. In the "beach-party" pictures of the early '60s, teenagers...
During her teens, Maria Menna Perper, 42, a New Jersey biochemist, suffered intestinal problems around the time of her period. By her late 30s, she felt "excruciating, burning pain" in her colon every month "like clockwork." Eventually the pain became continuous, and it was impossible for her to work or even sit down...
...Madonna Street. Fosse, who wrote the book, stubbornly resisted advice to simplify the narrative, prune out tasteless jokes involving a urinal and a simulated oral- sex act, add more dance and brighten what he admitted was a "melancholy" ending. The score, too, is recycled: standards from the '20s and '30s have been wittily reconsidered by Fosse and bewitchingly orchestrated by Ralph Burns. I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin' is sung by a judge to two defendants telling an unlikely tale. Everybody Loves My Baby becomes a father's high- energy romp about his infant son. One number...
...actors are in their mid-30s, it's beginning to stretch credibility," he says...
Throughout the '30s, Cagney enjoyed stardom in a series of feisty, defiantly urban parts: a street-smart swindler in Blonde Crazy (1931), a slum-bred cop in G-Men (1935), a ruined bootlegger in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938). By late in the decade he was one of the highest-paid actors in the country, a status he achieved partly by walking out repeatedly on Warners to press for higher pay and protest its grueling working conditions and bumper-to-bumper production schedule. For all his fame, Cagney had little taste for Hollywood night life. He liked best the company...