Word: aficionados
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Model Cheryl Tiegs, 33, whose sun-scrubbed looks have become a fixture on magazine covers, were thrown together on an African television safari in 1978. Last week at Long Island's Montauk Community Church, they were married. Tiegs' jungle jaunt had also turned her into an elephant aficionado, and at the wedding reception, held beneath a vast white tent on the rugged cliffs of Montauk, it was evident that the beauty had not forgotten her beast. Over the buffet siding of oysters, mussels and crab fingers stood a glistening ice sculpture-of an elephant...
...really is not his kind of humor. During most of this film he is way out of character (so is his rough language). He does not impersonate a rube or a lovable nitwit; his twitchy, leering mug is that of a loony who may be dangerously mad, a secret aficionado of cat juggling whose gift is for making audiences laugh uneasily. That is to say that he is, approximately, a white Richard Pryor, and how about casting the two of them to gether in a remake of The Prince and the Pauper? -John Skow