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HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP is an important movie--the first time I have ever seen the rapist in every male moviegoer come out of the closet. It was long overdue, since rape-and-murder occupies more entertainment time than any other subject except love. I don't think a night goes by without some prime-time detective battling a lady-killer, without shapely blondes and brunettes in tennis or go-go or hooker regalia done away with by nasty hitmen or mixed-up innocents who were teased by girls in high school...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP is an important movie--the first time I have ever seen the rapist in every male moviegoer come out of the closet. It was long overdue, since rape-and-murder occupies more entertainment time than any other subject except love. I don't think a night goes by without some prime-time detective battling a lady-killer, without shapely blondes and brunettes in tennis or go-go or hooker regalia done away with by nasty hitmen or mixed-up innocents who were teased by girls in high school...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

Nothing the lack of a clothes closet and bureaus, Armand piled his belongings on top of Rosovsky's desk, shoving the papers and books strewn across it onto the floor. As he was replacing the tomes on Rosovsky's bookshelf, the dean walked...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Woops | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

Nothing the lack of a clothes closet and bureaus, Armand piled his belongings on top of Rosovsky's desk, shoving the papers and books strewn across it onto the floor. As he was replacing the tomes on Rosovsky's bookshelf, the dean walked...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Woops | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...professional necessity: he winds up his days on the road by retiring to his rented rooms, switching on Johnny Carson ("very conducive") and pulling out his paintbox and brushes to record the place for posterity. Come Sept. 14, a score of watercolor and acrylic still lifes by the closet Matisse of Marriotts will go on display and sale at Manhattan's Central Falls Gallery. "People will always paint Notre Dame," the artist explains, "but who is going to memorialize Room 409 of the Holiday Inn South, unless I do?" A new career here for Safer? Ah, he sighs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 8, 1980 | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

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