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A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. A saucy, stylish musical that spoofs the golden age of the silver screen. All Marxophiles will adore the Ukrainian resurrection of Groucho, Chico and Harpo.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Best Of 1980: Theater | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

Sandy Bates is an idolized comic-turned-director who is cursed by his own gifts. Steamrollered by his staff -- incompetents to the last man, woman and child -- into attending a weekend retrospective of his work (a vicious parody of Judith Crist's Connecticut film weekends), he finds himself incessantly put...

Author: By Sol LOUIS Siegel, | Title: Stardust Memories | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

"Even they, even these Jewish pornographers idolize me! They adore me, you see, Hollywood and the whole bunch of decadents, they have made their fortune with me! Exploited me, you might say...where would they be without me!" He chuckled and laid the magazine down on his desk, next to...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Sympathy for the Devil | 5/23/1980 | See Source »

Wife-battering is another example of violence which is legitimized by the prevalence of media violence. Pornography perpetuates the attitude that women enjoy their victimization. Images of women inflicting injuries on themselves reinforce the false idea that women adore pain. And this false idea is often used to justify battering...

Author: By Ilana Debare and Kris Manos, S | Title: The Business of Degradation: Women and Pornography | 5/16/1980 | See Source »

Something tells Earl not to give money and car to a total stranger, but "to have an outright enemy as one's nearest neighbor, when one lived at the termination of a dead-end road, with only a wooded hollow beyond, a weed-field across the street, was unthinkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A House Is Not a Home | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

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