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...still something missing, so his handlers suggested a take-it-off takeoff of the now famous Richard Avedon portrait of Natassia Kinski, 21, with a languorous python at her thigh. For Atkins, that meant posing in the outfit that he is best known for on-screen and lying cheek by jowl with a 6-ft.-long, 20-lb. female boa constrictor. The result is a gripping bit of publicity, although Freud might be puzzled about just what Atkins is really revealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 16, 1982 | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

...problems with the Royal Marines here before," says Cheek. "We lost five girls one year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: Saved but Still Fearful | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...damages: seven houses were totally destroyed and 80 shot up in the capital, mostly by the British navy. Nor is there any escape from the fears that the Argentines may attack again, or that a future British government might hand the islands over to Argentine sovereignty anyway. Says Gerald Cheek: "Quite a lot of people have talked about moving away, myself included...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: Saved but Still Fearful | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...able to take it. He must be a Zen stoic who overdoses on pain in order to prove himself to himself. In Barbarosa, Willie Nelson lies placidly in his own new grave; he cauterizes his own stomach wound with flaming gunpowder; an enemy's bullet creases his cheek-not a word, not a whine, not so much as a flinch. In The Challenge, Scott Glenn dines on live eels and beetles; stands buried up to his neck in dirt for five days; gets karated or garroted every five minutes. So reads the code of the Old West (in Barbarosa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Machochists | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the humor in this sort of acting can be marred by just one actress in the small cast. Mia Farrow is beautiful but displays little capacity for the tongue-in-cheek delivery that keeps this script rolling. Her scenes drag, although the rest of the cast provides sparkle in Sex Comedy...

Author: By Clea Simon, | Title: Sex on a Summer's Night | 7/30/1982 | See Source »

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