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...Kane to Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, the sleazerrific Russ Meyer movie that Roger co-wrote in his 20s. As the go-to movie savant, he's been on hundreds of TV shows, sometimes alone, sometimes with his review-show partners; who can forget that night in the '80s when David Letterman persuaded Roger and Gene to toss basketballs at a makeshift hoop? And there've been countless speaking engagements, most of them to proselytize for the art and pleasure of movies. At some of these events he leads an in-depth discussion of some classic film - Citizen Kane...
...risks weren't just that the movie would be bad, or that a 52-year-old man would look silly jumping and diving, but that no one would care, that action movies are the westerns of our day, a product of '80s American supremacy that can't be resuscitated. Also, the risk was that Willis would break something on his body. "They played a Jedi mind trick on me and said, You're getting older and shouldn't do your own stunts, so of course I did my own stunts," he said. He shows me, after some prodding, the spot...
...intense, indoor workout short enough to squeeze into a lunch break, squash stole a march on gyms and fitness centers in Britain during the '70s and '80s. Its premise: Players confined to a 667-square foot court hit a tiny rubber ball against a wall with rackets smaller than those used in tennis. In the capital, the game "was thriving," says Charez Golvala, a corporate lawyer and Lambs member. But the growth of alternative pursuits from the late '80s onward - along with a lack of TV coverage that prevented the game's profile from taking off - meant many players nationwide...
...80s, bookstores were growing fat with titles aimed at men: How to Father, Expectant Father, Pregnant Fathers, The Birth of a Father, Fathers Almanac and Father Power. There were books about child-and-father relations, like How to Father a Successful Daughter, and then specific texts for part- time fathers, single fathers, stepfathers and homosexual fathers. Bill Cosby's Fatherhood was one of the best-selling books in publishing history, and Good Morning, Merry Sunshine, by Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene, a journal about his first year of fatherhood, was on the New York Times best- seller list for almost...
...JAPAN: Def Leppard, the ultimate power balladeers of the '80s, toured with wild success in Britain, the U.S. and Japan in the summers of '86, '87 and '88. This year the group has a lower-key itinerary: 50 gigs with Styx throughout the U.S. and Canada...