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...dozen NVA in his wake. Now Barnes finds Chris and is ready to kill him when a blast knocks them unconscious. Later Chris revives and finds the injured Barnes ordering him to get a medic. The young man lifts his weapon and, when Barnes says, "Do it," does the bastard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Platoon: Viet Nam, the way it really was, on film | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...physicist recalls watching another senior run "up and down stairs trying to get trick-knee. He actually got the deferment, the old bastard...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Waging a One-Man War of Peace | 1/14/1987 | See Source »

Shelley Winters decisioned him twice in 1951 ("slugging" him once and "slamming him over the head" another time) during squabbles over the filming of a forgettable movie called Meet Danny Wilson. "Bowlegged bitch of a Brooklyn blonde," he called her. "Skinny, no-talent stupid Hoboken bastard," she replied. Whap! She may be the only soul, living or dead, who comes out of Kitty Kelley's gritty biography of Frank Sinatra looking wholesome. That includes two U.S. Presidents, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, who cheapened their office by pal-ling around with Sinatra, the noted entertainer, bully and bar fighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Thumb in the Public Eye His Way:The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

Humphrey Bogart, a Hollywood tough guy who did not need bodyguards, liked Sinatra and thought him "amusing because he's a skinny little bastard and his bones kind of rattle together." But the stories Kelley has assembled are too numerous and grubby to be passed off as the forgivable sins of an amusing scamp, or of a tough-but-decent slum kid who made good. During the 1968 filming of Lady in Cement, according to Producer's Assistant Michael Viner, a prostitute complained that Sinatra had asked her to stay for breakfast after an all-night party, and then used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Thumb in the Public Eye His Way:The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...bastard son of Network by way of Brazil, the Headroom movie posits a futuristic Britain addicted to television. The evil Network 23 has invented Blipverts, super-effective commercials that have an unfortunate tendency to make couch potatoes explode. Unfortunately for Network 23's plans, their top-rated investigative reporter--played by Matt Frewer, the flesh behind the Headroom fantasy--is trying to uncover the story...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Of Max Headroom and Kurosawa | 10/25/1986 | See Source »

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