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...money back quickly. This means recycling the familiar into the surefire: 1980's biggest hit was The Empire Strikes Back, George Lucas' sequel to Star Wars. It means signing box-office stars at huge salaries: Burt Reynolds pulled in a reported $5 million for The Cannonball Run, Barbra Streisand $4.6 million for All Night Long. Directors are stars too: Francis Ford Coppola was offered $3 million to direct One from the Heart. Says Director Martin Scorsese, 38: "We're working ourselves right out of jobs. I'm concerned that the industry is being destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Hollywood: Dead or Alive? | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

With Oscar night approaching, the mind begins to swim in superlatives. This new comedy, starring Gene Hackman as a middle-aged man shadowboxing an identity crisis and Barbra Streisand as the kooky love interest, is a film of firsts and worsts, leasts and mosts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Superlatives ALL NIGHT LONG | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...confused-or at least don't care if they are-are the millions of fans who have given Diamond, by his own reckoning, 20 platinum and gold albums and over 30 hit singles, including 1978's You Don't Bring Me Flowers, a duet with Barbra Streisand. Diamond loyalists right now are making their boy's latest efforts two of the year's hottest records. Love on the Rocks, a typically canny Diamond ballad, is currently No. 2 on the charts, while the album it comes from, The Jazz Singer, is fifth among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bandmaster of the Mainstream | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...producer and director pick the stars, of course: a John Travolta to put on his jeans for an Urban Cowboy or a Brooke Shields to take hers off for a Blue Lagoon. Sometimes the stars pick their producers and directors; in a Streisand production the only thing Barbra does not control is how much butter a patron pours on his popcorn-and she probably has firm opinions on that too. But in both television and films there are dozens of smaller roles that only the casting director can fill. For ABC's The Winds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

More recent victims of back trouble have included Cyrus Vance, Edmund Muskie, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Sutherland and Barbra Streisand. Sports figures suffer from back pain too. Golfer Lee Trevino and former New York Yankee Infielder Tony Kubek have been strick en. Earlier this year Hockey Center Stan Mikita of the Chicago Black Hawks was permanently sidelined by his aching back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Aching Back! | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

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