Word: casts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Black" has also developed negative connotations, but there is no real reason to use the term "African-American" other than to provide a motivational tune-up. Chances are that a decade from now "African-American" will develop its own negative imagery and will have to be cast on the heap of bad identifiers...
Jeffords said he cast his vote yesterday to make clear his view that judges are badly in need of a pay raise and because, unlike last week's measure, this one did not curtail lawmakers' rights to make speeches for fees...
...London restaurant, Peter O'Toole, 56, speared an oyster and reflected nearly three decades back, to the time when a little-known Irish actor was cast as Lawrence of Arabia. "These were events that altered my entire life," he told TIME correspondent Anne Constable. "It became a yardstick by which to measure practically anything -- even simple things like human endurance." Stepping into the 130 degrees F Jordanian sun on the first day of shooting, he recalls, "it was so hot it hurt. But within a month I adjusted. I knew it would be as much an adventure as a film...
...Farentino, plays a pushy police lieutenant who does not believe in Nina's alibi, and though he gives a fair presentation of the script, his performance is uninspired. Daniels plays Selleck's whining publishing agent, but all he does is transfer his St. Elsewhere character to the screen. The cast is so familiar, in fact, that if you blink real fast you could almost swear you were sitting in front of your Zenith...
Unfortunately for the actors, the script does not take any chances on the acting abilities of the cast. One predictable scene follows another. For example, in one scene Selleck takes Porizkova home with him but later wonders whether or not she is actually the murderer. Alone in his bedroom, he gets up to block the door with his dresser bureau. And then what? Well naturally, Porizkova walks in catching him in the act. What does Selleck reply? A better question is: what would Magnum reply? "Oh I was just exercising. Some people lift weights, I move furniture." Where...