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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christiane and her boyfriend Detlev (Thomas Haustein) spiral into the lower depths, the movie becomes as exhausting and repetitive as a reprobate's confession. But this is Screenwriter Herman Weigel's point. There is no drama in this drama-no rush, no reason, no alternative, no future. The junkie's world is not a series of adrenaline highs and remorseful lows; it is one endless anguish. The victims are zombies, gray-faced, living dead. Director Ulrich Edel hews to a semidocumentary style, but his message is out of the classic German monster movies: There is a golem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bravado Is Their Passport | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...with like some powerful spot remover are an old man's anxiety about aging and death, the long-time antipathy he and his daughter share, the uneasiness of the wife mother who is caught between them, and the generally screwed-up nature of the son of the daughter's boyfriend. It sadamn nice world that patches up all these problems so quickly and congenially...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: On Golden Caramel | 2/4/1982 | See Source »

...many friendly things to say to Chelsea, who has shows up at the Thayer's summer home for Norman's birthday. One can believe that Chelsea would turn up for such an event, but it's a bit of a strain to imagine her bringing along her demind-boyfriend to be skewered by Norman's verbal parries. The dentist (Debney Coleman), incidentally, is the real McCoy; he wears a light blue cotton Suit, a white and blue plaid short and a dark solid tie. Now that is a dentist. What requires a great leap of faith is understanding why Chelsea...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: On Golden Caramel | 2/4/1982 | See Source »

...been encountered, by Haden-Guest and others, in trendy restaurants and bars on Manhattan's East Side; he was an affable table hopper in his mid-30s with a reputation for shady connections. Just before his death, Tupper had also become known as Melanie Cain's new boyfriend. Buddy Jacobson, so the theory went at the time, had put a stop to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Night People | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

...enjoyed a short respite midweek, but raw weather returned on Thursday, when St. Cloud's -30° set a city record for the date, and a steady snowfall covered the state. Earlier, in rural southern Minnesota, Karlie Sazama, 17, spent a long night in a car with her boyfriend Robert Schaaf, 19. But this was no teen-age frolic: the couple was stuck for 16 hours in drifting roadside snow. Said Schaaf of their survival: "We tore seat covers off the front seat and wrapped them around our heads and snuggled together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Numbing of America | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

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