Word: billing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today, when movies are not so grand, male icons come in two models. The comics (Bill Murray, Tom Hanks, Eddie Murphy) trade in hip facetiousness, in sitcom-size emotions, in the suave hustling of attitude. The hunks (Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone, Clint Eastwood) go crusading for the Grail, the heavyweight title, the urban psycho, but have few communal roots; they are loners, in quest only of the quest. Suspended between these two types is young Tom Cruise -- a certified star in search of an enduring identity...
...Costner clan has always been on the move. "This is a Grapes of Wrath family," explains brother Dan. The Costners, of Irish and German descent (with a hint of Cherokee blood), moved West when they lost their Oklahoma farm. Kevin's father Bill recapitulated the Okie migration, moving from one Southern California town to another in various jobs for Southern California Edison. "From Day 1, Kevin was his own person," recalls Bill, 60. "Once he decided to take charge of organizing a parade at his school. I figured it was too big a job for an eleven-year...
...read gambling between the lines of a lot of my hate mail," says Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson. Bill Walsh of the San Francisco 49ers speaks of "those low, throaty, ominous" boos when the home football team sits on a small lead, the point spread be damned. "I think there's an element of it everywhere," Bobby Knight says. "I think there are coaches who bet. I think there are referees who bet. I think there are plenty of sportswriters...
When renegade House Republicans made a last-ditch attempt to soften President Bush's tough savings-and-loan bailout bill last week, there was nothing wimpy about his response. As the House debated the legislation, the President corralled congressional leaders and took his cause to the people. "It is time for the American public and our Administration to say that enough is enough," Bush said. If the House weakened the stringent new regulations of the bill, the President warned, he would veto it. By week's end Bush prevailed when the House approved a strong bailout bill by a vote...
...question of advertising in schools has already raised legal challenges in several states, most notably New York and California. "If you're paying kids to watch commercials, that violates our state law," insists California Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig, who has pledged to cut funds to schools that accept Channel One. Whittle is adamant that advertising is the only feasible way to foot the bill. Says he: "Schools have a choice: either do without, or do it this...