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Cleverly crafted out of latex and foam rubber, the cast of caricatures ranges from Ronald and Nancy Reagan to Barbra Streisand, from William ("the Refrigerator") Perry to Charles Bronson, from Walter Cronkite to David Frost. Oops, Frost is actually the only real person featured on a special version of Spitting Image, the weekly satirical show of puppets and circumstances that is one of Britain's most talked-about TV programs. The two-year-old series is either adored or abhorred for such presentations as a Christmastime satire of the royal family regally addled by holiday cheer. Last week work...
...year by 1990, when the U.S. may have as many as 1,600 smart buildings. Already Cushman's Dallas-based property manager, Jay Dee Allen, says that fully half his inquiries concern space in smart buildings. "Smart technology makes it easier to attract tenants," says Larry Guilmette, manager of Bronson and Hutensky, a co-developer of Hartford's CityPlace. "The fact that you can sell some sizzle gives you a higher profile." It doesn't take a smart building to figure that...
...Burt Reynolds shoot-'em-up, Stick, is a commercial and cinematic clunker. Charles Bronson has not had a big U.S. box-office success in years. Steve McQueen is long dead. Meanwhile Code of Silence, Chuck Norris' third movie in eight months, sold more tickets in its opening week than any other movie in the country. In his strictly wham-bam B-movie genre, Norris, a former karate champion, has become the undisputed superstar. No longer a cult figure but still well this side of A-list famous, Norris and some of his Hollywood partisans figure his celebrity is analogous...
...approval of the average frustrated New York City subway rider was palpable. The tabloids gleefully compared the "subway sigilante" to the Charles Bronson character in the movie "Death Wish," and set about gauging the level of public support, which was extremely high Police hotlines set up to collect eyewitness information proved virtually worthless; they were clogged with congratulations and others to pay for the legal defense of the gunman, whose advocates included civil rights leader Roy Innis...
...tough-but- vulnerable charm, and the gag lines would have embarrassed the crowd at WJM- TV. (A friend, chiding Sara for taking low-paying cases, wonders if she has something against making money: "Did something happen when you were a kid? Were you attacked by a $10 bill?") Bronson Pinchot, currently winning acclaim for his bit as a swishy art-gallery assistant in Beverly Hills Cop, brightens the show as a gay lawyer who works with Sara, but he too is at the mercy of mediocre material...