Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sent back to Viet Nam to search for U.S. prisoners of war, only to be abandoned in the jungle and forced to guerrilla-fight his way out. In its first 23 days of release, Rambo, which cost $27 million to produce, has grossed a phenomenal $75.8 million at the box office. Only two films in history, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Return of the Jedi, have had more successful launches...
...Stallone look-alike will deliver a birthday message or carry out a tough assignment like asking the boss for a raise. The U.S. Army has started hanging Rambo posters outside its recruitment offices, hoping to lure enlistees. Rambo fever is even spreading overseas. The film has already broken box-office records in Beirut and the Philippines, and 25 companies have signed contracts to distribute Rambo merchandise, even in countries where the film has not yet opened...
First Blood made $57 million at the box office, a substantial though not spectacular success. Since then the public's receptivity to tales that lend nobility to the Viet Nam War has grown. Films like Missing in Action and Uncommon Valor, both of them about missions to rescue American POWs in Viet Nam, drew big audiences. On TV, Viet Nam veterans, once portrayed as troubled loners, are now the sympathetic crime fighters of such hit shows as The A-Team and Magnum, P.I. First Blood scored unusually high ratings in a telecast on NBC last month, and orders for video...
...subway tokens to get to most movies because the Square offers some good theaters within walking distance. Check out The Phoenix each week for complete listings of evening entertainment. Buy tickets for big concerts and nightclub bands at Out of Town News, Strawberry Records, Ticketron or the box offices. If it's concert tickets you want, make sure you go early, because the high-school kids always seem to eat them up quickly and scalp them at a huge profit to saps who didn't wait in line for seats...
Gradually, the national television audience will migrate from Cable New Network ("Around The World, Around The Clock") and the edge of its seat the Home Box Office and the refrigerator...