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Marianna R. Burt, director of ethical studies for the MSPCA, said yesterday that the group has introduced a bill in the State legislature to strike down a 25-year-old law that allows the pound seizures, adding that the bill would guarantee that pound animals are not used in lab work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State SPCA Supports Proposal To Keep Animals From Labs | 3/25/1982 | See Source »

SHARKY'S MACHINE Directed by Burt Reynolds Screenplay by Gerald Di Pego

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Obsession | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

This last is provided by the smart, ambitious title character (Burt Reynolds, in his tough-romantic vein), who is a detective being disciplined with a tour of netherworld duty. What sets them all in muttering motion-in its best passages the movie sounds like a Robert Altman film, full of cynical asides and loopy observations-is the brutal murder of a call girl. Since one of the conventions of up-to-date murder mysteries is that pillars of the community must always have a slimy underside, she turns out to have been the victim of sexual perversity among the local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Obsession | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...postal card last week from some %- folks I know out in Hollywood, California. Seems they went there to make a motion picture and wound up gettin' their grits fried by a Florida boy name of Burt Reynolds and that lil ole big ole gal from Tennessee Dolly Parton. Leastways that's how they tell it. I figger it another way: If you plan to go to Hollywood you better be ready to Go Hollywood. But you decide for yer own self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Whorehouse goes Hollywood | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

...tells it. Now it's all greasepaint. "Since I was 14 I've worn enough makeup to sink the Mayflower," she says. "Here I wear six wigs, 17 different costumes. The whole thing is sexy fun. I make a better whore than a secretary anyway. And Burt, he's so wonderful and I love him so good." One day Dolly and Burt were shootin' a number called I Will Always Love You, and Burt's parents came in to see it. After the take, Dolly jumped up and shouted to them, "I'm kissin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Whorehouse goes Hollywood | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

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