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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does not want to talk about this condition, she says, because she does not know how to describe a complex personal relationship in two sentences. Her career is bubbling with offers. De Mornay is fully adult now, a professional actress, possibly the most mature of a promising new bunch. Hand out the diplomas and play the recessional: the class of '86 has graduated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Greetings to the Class of '86 | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...Cohan and for the evening gown competition each semi-finalist was escorted in a knockout dress beneath an archway of uplifted Naval Academy sabers and the cadets lucky enough to accompany the lovely ladies wore Good Humor Man ice-cream suits and Remedial Math dropjaw smiles like a bunch of meatheaded Varsity fullbacks strutting arm-in-arm with prospective Homecoming Queens and for the swimsuit competition the camera played fly-on-the-wall in the semi-finalists dressing room and a Miss America of yesteryear wandered from girl-to-girl like a queenbee in a honeycomb and the small-talk...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: One Fine Night in Newton | 5/23/1986 | See Source »

...Manning, chairman of the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency: "Silliness sells when you're trying to get an ad to cut through the clutter." To keep viewers from wandering into the kitchen during the station break, many businesses are relying on skits that might have been staged by a bunch of sixth-graders. An ad for Bobby Gray Volkswagen-Mazda in Jackson, Miss., features nine car salesmen in matching sweatshirts, khaki pants and tennis shoes who stage an arrhythmic song-and-dance routine in the middle of an empty football stadium. While three of the performers pound out a funky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Now, a Gag From Our Sponsor | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...them. Yet that is the role he plays in this drably rouged-up autobiography, which he directed and co-wrote (with Rocco Urbisci and Paul Mooney). The contours of Pryor's misspent life are the same--raised in his grandma's $ brothel, early career working cheap nightclubs, a bunch of misunderstood and misunderstanding wives, championship bouts with alcohol and drugs leading to the final free-base conflagration--but the guts are missing. The comic here is a sweet-souled wimp: he uses a gun only in defense of a friend; he is introduced to cocaine by his white wife, whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: May 19, 1986 | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...Crimson should be up for the challenge: "We have a bunch of winners on our team," Toland said. "It's just the character of this team. We like to go out there and win as much...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Batsmen Can UMass | 5/9/1986 | See Source »

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