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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good fun must come to an end, however--or so thought one South Yard proctor who threatened to sent the author of the "voice" straight to the Ad Board, according to students. But to the proctor's chagrin, his own voice was sent, via the hookup, echoing across the Yard...
...deal with such matters -- or better yet, for the kids to show how they have internalized their parents' values. When a friend of 13-year-old Vanessa lights up a cigarette in the house, the Huxtable children take turns berating the girl; even little Rudy comes on like an ad for the American Cancer Society...
Well-made fictions like Fatal Attraction prosper because they seem more persuasive than fact. Nicolas Roeg's Castaway has another challenge. Just try believing that a bright, spirited woman like Lucy Irvine (Amanda Donohoe) would answer a man's ad for a desert-island mate and set out for a year alone with an impractical chap like Gerald Kingsland (Oliver Reed). But it did happen, and Roeg and Writer Allan Scott have made an engaging movie based on Irvine's memoir...
...other actors succeed in creating realistic characters even before the show begins as they ad lib in character on the stage while the audience is being seated. Later, when 22 of them are talking at once, the actors reinforce their characters through gestures, imaginative costumes, and for Tara Dolan's world-weary hooker, lots of perfume...
...Nightline were not enough of a reminder of the tawdry side of political celebrity, Donna Rice chose the day after the broadcast to unveil her ad campaign for No Excuses jeans. At almost the precise moment Hart was lunching with New York Governor Mario Cuomo, Rice was just a few miles away giggling through a brief press availability. It was a tableau beyond parody: Hart's quest for redemption crosses Rice's pecuniary ambitions. Her only contribution to the political dialectic was a 15-second commercial in which she boasts, "I have a lot to say. But 15 seconds...