Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Where does Dustin Hoffman, Hollywood's hottest leading actor, go to try his hand at Shakespeare? Where does composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who has had six megamusicals on Broadway in the '80s, launch his latest? Where does American playwright Martin Sherman (Bent) debut a work about his countrymen in exile...
...made. And grant this, that in a time when movies and politicians win approval by dodging the big awful issues, Field of Dreams engineers a head-on collision with things that matter: the desperate competition between fathers and sons, the need for '60s idealism in the me-first '80s, the desire for reconciliation beyond the grave. In a dialogue between Mann and Ray as they approach the ball park, Field of Dreams provides its own pan and rave. "Unbelievable!" exclaims Mann, and Ray replies, "It's more than that. It's perfect...
...Wilmarth's later work of the '80s, the hidden figure becomes explicit. Wilmarth's sign for it was in part a homage to Brancusi: an egg-shaped form, a glass sign for a head. Sometimes it appears on its own -- once, in a piece called Sigh, 1979-80, with the "face" cut away and resting resignedly inside the egg, an image of exquisite poignancy. Usually the head is fixed to a metal plaque with edges and attachments that suggest a window frame, and thus someone (the sculptor himself) looking out into our space. These pieces are darker and less restrained...
...love him. As the visionary farmer in Field of Dreams, the man strikes sparks with a movie audience keen to believe that a son could have a game of catch with his dead dad. In The Untouchables, No Way Out and Bull Durham, he defined new horizons for the '80s screen hero. Now he is on top of the movie heap, and he knows exactly why. See SHOW BUSINESS...
...deal had gathered support among many U.S. business leaders because it suggested a healthy way for companies to grow and expand without incurring a backbreaking load of debt. But the frenzy that surrounded the Paramount proposal last week seemed more closely linked to the merger mania of the roaring '80s than to hopes of restoring U.S. competitiveness in the 1990s. At the very least, the managers and employees of Time, Warner and Paramount stand to be distracted for months by the takeover struggle. And while a clash of the titans may be an exciting spectacle, it can waste huge amounts...