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...story of Jake Rubin (played with starched-collar sobriety by Peter Riegert) is straight out of a grade-B musical bio. Jake goes to work as a waiter but is soon writing songs for a gruff but good-hearted music publisher (Stubby Kaye). Eventually he is the toast of Broadway, rubbing shoulders with Flo Ziegfeld and wooing a nightclub singer (Ann Jillian) whom he marries and makes a star. "When I first saw the Statue of Liberty," he tells her, "I thought it was the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen. But I hadn't seen...
...three heavy-hitting companies in the business, sells a card picturing Glenn Hubbard, animal-loving second-baseman for the Braves, with a giant python draped across his shoulders. Donruss Co., of Memphis, has issued a card honoring the San Diego Chicken, former mascot of the Padres, complete with a bio on the back that tells when the big bird was hatched: April...
American scientists have no trouble dreaming up these and other possibilities, but, for the moment, dreaming is all they can do. Because of the political sensitivity of experiments with human embryos, federal grant money, which fuels 85% of bio-medical research in the U.S., has been denied to scientists in this field. So controversial is the issue that four successive Secretaries of Health and Human Services (formerly Health, Education and Welfare) have refused to deal with it. This summer, Norfolk's Hodgen resigned as chief of pregnancy research at the National Institutes of Health. He explained his frustration...
This Amadeus dares to pose the riddle of genius in the form of a traditional celebrity bio pic. In 1781 Mozart (Tom Hulce), once the put-upon prodigy of musical Europe, comes at the age of 26 to the Viennese court of Hapsburg Emperor Joseph II (played with a sly, thin smile and a delicious air of cagey indecisiveness by Jeffrey Jones). There the man of the moment is Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham): court composer, consummate technician and politician, Emperor's favorite, a musical lion of Vienna. Most important, he knows his place, as an educated servant among...
...very exciting to be in a lab, to see things work out, and you can learn an enormous amount from the people around you there," Lozano says of her four years in labs both at the Med School's Department of Microbiology and the Cabot Science Complex's Bio Labs, studying bacterial viruses...