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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem, though, is that even after Mike has been murdered by cocaine dealers, the disparate stories never truly connect. How Betty's being a bank teller, for example, relates to Mike's being chased by thugs is never clear, and the connection between the parties Betty's pseudo-intellectual boyfriend Richard (Daniel Shor) gives and her relationship with Mike is even less lucid...

Author: By David H. Pollock, | Title: Winging It | 5/4/1984 | See Source »

...film's clumsy, amateur appearance. Most of the dialogue is either narrative or banal, offering little insight into the characters as people. When the characters are occasionally developed. Bridges resorts to stereotypes. Mike carries around a black book with names of available women; Betty's erudite and artsy boyfriend quotes platitudes like "The ephemeral is the eternal"; and when Mike promises Betty "This time I'll call and come," she can't resist responding wittily "last time you called and came...

Author: By David H. Pollock, | Title: Winging It | 5/4/1984 | See Source »

...aspiring actress said that living with a boyfriend is as normal as "brushing your teeth," and that busting people for smoking pot is "silly." Patti, who did not participate in the 1980 race, will not campaign for her father this fall either: "I don't like politics." Luckily for Reagan, who campaigned last week for a return to "traditional values," Patti's outspoken views did not receive wide coverage. But her modern ways have caused a stir in the White House. Nancy Reagan was especially upset after Patti came to visit last Christmas with her beau, a California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Little Rascals | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

Like many a sun worshiper, Actress-Model Ann Turkel, 32, used to spend hours working on a seamless, all-over tan, but got tired of "always hanging out naked in my backyard." So she and her boyfriend, Austrian Designer Hans Buhringer, set out to find a solution to this two-tone torment. The result, appropriately, is called "the unsuit," available for men and women at $35 to $40 and made with a special cotton material that allows some, but not all, of the sun to shine through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 12, 1984 | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...falling trunk. One of Kevin's other friends, the misogynist veterinarian Festus O'Flaherty, arrives safety on the far but will have nothing to do with Kevin's sister. Kevin and maureen resort to hiring Billy Snoddy, a working man who was Maureen's only other childhood boyfriend, to play the part of surrogate. Snoddy is a thoroughly creepy character who, after discovering Kevin and Maureen in bed together, can only relish his knowledge and position. He becomes more noxious to Kevin when Maureen learns that her pregnancy was a false alarm...

Author: By John P. O connor, | Title: Family Fun | 2/28/1984 | See Source »

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