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...This show bears a more than coincidental resemblance to Sid Caesar's old Your Show of Shows. The perils it presents to a man whose joints have been vulcanized by excesses of meaningful booze and meaningless sex are substantial: an erratically egomaniacal star (Joseph Bologna); an aggrieved hoodlum (Cameron Mitchell), convinced he is being satirized in one of the regular sketches and determined to have violent revenge; a writing staff headed by a man (Bill Macy) who knows only three emotions-panic, depression and obsequiousness; the general hysteria surrounding the weekly production of a program that is broadcast live...
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH Directed by Amy Heckerling Screenplay by Cameron Crowe...
...sure, both Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Class of 1984 claim a basis in fact: real events, real people, only the names changed to make everything seem so awesomely bogus. Journalist Cameron Crowe, then 22, spent the 1979-80 school year undercover at "Ridgemont High" in Southern California, then sculpted his observations into a book. Crowe's screenplay reunites his familiar cast: Brad (Judge Reinhold) is the lazily macho chef at the best fast-food joint in town. Damone (Robert Romanus) is the greaser who is about two-fifths as cool as he thinks he is. Spicoli (Sean...
Michael H. Cameron...
Another legacy of this trip is a heightened prestige for the papacy, even among secular observers. Significantly, the London Times said in an editorial: "John Paul leaves Britain carrying with him the affection and admiration of far more Britons than he arrived with." Columnist James Cameron, who calls himself an agnostic, wrote in the influential Guardian: "I could rather wish we had a few more Popes around, if they were as benevolent and rational as this one seems to be." In the crowd at Glasgow, one skeptical businessman remarked, "I have tremendous admiration for this man and what...