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Unsurprisingly, the Secret Service proves too much for him to handle. He heads to a whorehouse in order to rescue a teeny-bopper hooker (superbly played by Jodie Foster) and guns down a pimp and his friends. There is a nice irony that this outburst of extraordinarily gory violence turns an individual who was within a hair-trigger length of being a national horror into a local hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Potholes | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

...Arthur Karuna-Karan and Mahmood Mamdani? Who are Bonnie B. Blustein '72 and Ira D. Helfand '71? Who is Tommy th'Bopper...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg and Tom Lee, S | Title: The Oh, Mama, Can this Really Be the End? Quiz | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

...long trips, he bought a full-size Scenicruiser bus and refitted the inside as a plush mobile home. Truckers who heard a strange voice jabbering away over the Citizen's Band radio frequency in Missouri recently were listening to none other than Muhammad All. "This is Big Bopper," Ali broadcast. "Watch out for Smokey Bear [truckers' code for a state trooper] at marker 139, westbound on Interstate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Violent Coronation in Kinshasa | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...many glasses of milk do you drink per day?" asked a giggling teeny-bopper of the star. "Seven," ad-libbed Swimming Champ Mark Spitz, 24. Then he drank a small carton of milk-the way that Dean Martin used to toss off something harder -and launched into his stage debut at the Magic Mountain amusement park in Valencia, Calif. Backed by a fresh-faced chorus called the Mark Curb Congregation, Mark soft-shoe-shuffled and crooned through a couple of olden goldies, The Sidewalks of New York and A Bicycle Built for Two. Then he introduced his guests, National Hula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 5, 1974 | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

When Sha Na Na first appeared in 1966, they were a fresh breath in the wasteland of the teeny-bopper-gee-I'm-heavy rock of the Sixties. If Friday's performance is any indication, Sha Na Na has come a long way since then, and most of it is downhill. Sad to say, Sha Na Na seems to have made the grab for the big buck, and kissed the Magic Sound goodbye...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: A Ducktail with Grease | 5/8/1973 | See Source »

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