Word: boyfriend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Connor), screwing himself into his easy chair, deflecting harsh words and harder responsibilities. Mom (Frances Sternhagen) is patrolling the house in her robe and bunny snood, calling "Wakey uppy! Wakey uppy!" in the tinny cascades of Texas motherhood. Sis (Linda Cook) is chatting on the phone with her boyfriend and threatening to "devote my entire life to crisis counseling for the holiday-impaired. My mother can be the poster child." And young Jeremy (Christopher Fields), just back from the war, slouches about like a lost soul. On closer inspection, though, this engaging sitcom quartet reveals affinities to more tortured theatrical...
...White House, whose annual holiday bashes are regretted by almost no one asked. Indeed, one tale this year involves a recently divorced newsman. When the White House invitation was mistakenly sent to his old address, his ex-wife accepted, then showed up at the press reception with her new boyfriend. The splitting of the press corps into two gatherings prompted concern that there were separate but unequal "A" and "B" lists; the Washington Post looked into the matter and found that the division was egalitarian, each party boasting roughly the same number of media superstars...
...Stoneleigh-Burnham boarding school for girls in Greenfield, Mass., Barrows enrolled in Manhattan's Fashion Institute of Technology, where she studied merchandising and business management. Graduating first in her class, she won a $1,000 scholarship to advance her studies. She spent the money touring Europe with her boyfriend from The Bronx, Steve Rozansky, who last week peddled the pictures of her to New York newspapers. Says Rozansky, now a casino blackjack dealer: "She told me my New York Jewish accent would always make me seem dumb. She was very proud of her family, fond of going...
...work and set her aflame. Their two sons and neighbors got there too late to rescue her; at week's end she was in critical condition and not expected to live. In Columbus, Alondra Thompson, recently released from a private psychiatric hospital, fired three bullets into her sleeping boyfriend, critically wounding him. She too told the police that The Burning Bed had inspired her act. Nevertheless, most experts absolved the show, arguing that Brandt and Thompson might have attacked their mates anyway. Said UCLA Psychiatrist Louis J. West: "Millions of people saw it, and they didn't burn...
...outset, director Baker craftily disguises the plot beneath the cloak of family tragedy. Jennifer (Meg Tilly), a small town ballerina, has gone to study dance in New York, where she meets her soon-to-be boyfriend Stuart (Tim Matheson). Stuart is a cultured yuppie finishing up his medical residency. Yet no sooner do Jennifer and Stuart become involved, than Jennifer's mother discovers the romance, and during an accusatory phone call, shoots herself. Jennifer and Stuart race home to the rural Midwestern town where Jennifer's mother lives, and the plot quickly takes on a surreal glaze...