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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gladys did not let the boy play out of her sight until he was 15 and still walked him to school in ninth grade. At 16, Elvis transformed his paralyzing shyness into a bizarre statement: greased locks, pegged pants, mascara and eye shadow. Later he would dye his dirty-blond hair black, imitating a hoody Tony Curtis in the 1949 Brooklyn gang movie City Across the River. When Gladys died of a heart attack in 1958, the King of Rock 'n' Roll was still on apron strings. He demanded that her casket be opened. Then he babbled childish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Search of Pelvis Redux | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

What would you do if you and two other guys dyed your hair blond, recorded a few records of slick, uptempo new wave-reggae, and suddenly found yourself a household word in India, Mexico, Japan, England, America, and Antarctica? You'd freak. That's obviously what has happened to the Police this outing...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: The Demons of Pseudo-Euro-Disco; Jeffreys, Hunter, Kinks & Stones Redux | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

...well as the crude, masculine game of dozens. Her experience as a stage actress, primarily at the Stage One Company, lies beneath her effortless virtuosity. Her Sally is highly feminine, but not stylized--a pig-tailed, funky adult who speaks low and jivey. Mason is a naturally-grinning blond whose well-practised mannerisms reek of reflex criminality: the archetypal detriment to Sally's hope for a clean life...

Author: By Philippe L. Browning, | Title: Playing the Game | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

DIED. Gloria Grahame, 55, sultry blond movie actress who frequently portrayed the unsavory "other woman" or calculating tart in strong supporting roles opposite such stars as Olivia de Havilland (Not as a Stranger, 1955) and Joan Crawford (Sudden Fear, 1952); of cancer; in New York City. Grahame won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for playing a frivolous Southern belle in The Bad and the Beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 19, 1981 | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

...radio intact, celebrated his 50th year as a cartoon hawkshaw. So did his creator, Chester Gould, 80. Gould, now in affluent retirement in Woodstock, Ill., first dubbed his hero "Plainclothes Tracy," The moniker soon changed and later, so did Tracy. After an 18-year courtship, he finally wed his blond sweetie Tess Trueheart, and, says Gould: "I left Tracy a little more handsome than he was in 1931." In 1977 Chester passed on his pen to two young successors, Rick Fletcher, and Allan Collins, after "46 years, two months and 21 days on the job." But he is grumpy about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 12, 1981 | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

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