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...state of pop music, 1985: the stakes are even bigger than the hair. Tipper Gore (Mariel Hemingway) and a group of Capitol wives are out to legislate against "porn rock." A music-biz lobbyist (Jason Priestley) rallies a coalition against them, including Twisted Sister's Dee Snider (as himself) and Frank Zappa (Griffin Dunne), portrayed ludicrously as a kind of chain-smoking Yoda to Priestley's yuppie acolyte. It's a rich premise, but this farce has all the subtlety of a Twisted Sister video--and about one-tenth...
...House in the early 60s, who loves the program for its unabashed liberal slant and I have conservative chums who use the show to do opposition research. Washington and Hollywood have always enjoyed a clandestine courtship with one another. Now after eight years of the most telegenic and show biz savvy presidential administration in the history of the republic and against the backdrop of cutthroat 24/7 cable news coverage these two power towns are flaunting their romance in public...
While many nannies are silenced by iffy immigration status or poor English, Kraus and McLaughlin were uniquely placed to expose the nanny-to-the-rich biz. Kraus was raised on the Upper East Side, McLaughlin in upstate New York. They have an easy familiarity with the trappings--and traps--of wealth. But the book would not be making nearly the splash it is if the authors' former employers did not include about 30 actual New York City families. The verisimilitude has made for a cool reaction from some quarters and sniffs of a boycott from Park Avenue. Several publishing houses...
...more than sofa ballast. Where other talk-show sidekicks once grinned and fed the boss straight lines, the acerbic Richter was an integral, almost equal partner, doing comedy bits and zany reporting segments on the road. Over seven years, he took that most emasculating of show-biz roles and gave it something like dignity. (Even if he once had to streak onto the Today show set in flesh-colored underwear as a prank for Late Night.) "Sometimes we'd have an older guest who wasn't too familiar with the show," remembers O'Brien, "and he'd point at Andy...
...million media campaign designed to block the nuclear garbage dump. The state's powerful U.S. Senator, Democrat Harry Reid, has recruited two former White House chiefs of staff--John Podesta, who served under Bill Clinton, and Kenneth Duberstein, of the Reagan White House, to lobby Congress. Show-biz stars like Christie Brinkley and Wayne Newton will also speak out. Most dramatically, the campaign plans to send trucks with mock nuclear casks into cities around the country, where they will get stuck in traffic to highlight the problems with hauling waste to Nevada...