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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Datal Attraction." The thriller is not the only genre chilled by contemporary sexual skirmishing. In Armyan Bernstein's comedy Cross My Heart, two nice people (Martin Short and Annette O'Toole) endure the Date of Death. He borrows his best friend's car and apartment; one is stolen, the other trashed. She gets a leg cramp while they make out; he sees his shirt get singed on a nearby lamp as they make love. She won't tell him she has a young daughter; he won't tell her he has just lost his job. This sweet, slightly strained film...
EARLY on the morning of January 27, 1980, two Austalian policemen patrolling a lonely stretch of highway came upon a parked Mercedes sedan. Approaching the car, they saw a man slumped over in the driver's seat with a rifle slug in the head, the victim of an apparent suicide. The man, a drug trafficker, arms trader and purveyor of secrets, was Francis Nugan, chairman of Nugan Hand, the widely respected international banking house...
...Only dopes smoke dope!" says the indignified man, slamming the car door. "I'm going to be President some day. But don't come asking for favors--or appointments...
...later magazine pieces about Southern stock-car racing, California auto customizers, Manhattan's Pop art world, funky fashions and the navel engagements of the self-awareness movement confirmed Wolfe's originality. Unlike the reigning intellectuals of the day, he took American mass culture at face value, though not with a straight face. His New Journalism combined the skills and stamina of an ace reporter with the techniques of fiction, and it reached its peak in The Right Stuff, the 1979 recounting of the lives and times of the Mercury astronauts...
...Kennedy International Airport and feeling on top of the world when he mistakenly turns off the highway and gets lost in the South Bronx. There is a confrontation with two black youths, a scuffle, a hasty escape with the girlfriend now behind the wheel of his black Mercedes sports car. There is also a suspicious thok! against the car...