Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Major dailies regularly rail against any attempts by the government to influence the content of their issues. The analogy of a wall that constitutionally stands between church and state has been appropriated by the press to explain what the First Amendment means...
...merely trying to recapture lost territory. After the embarrassing Morning Program, the new show has been a welcome addition just by looking normal. Though it is still fishing for its personality, Co-Anchors Kathleen Sullivan and Harry Smith are smooth and genuine (he more than she). The news content is relatively high, the tone comfortably mellow and the audience slightly larger. The chief problem: luring star-caliber guests away from the more popular Today and Good Morning America...
...opera. Now, in Britain at least, he is the most prominent musical figure since the Beatles, a fixture on TV talk shows who is fussed over and clutched at whenever he walks down a street or sits in a restaurant. During his partnership with Rice, Lloyd Webber was content to let his more outgoing, voluble associate front for the pair. "Tim was a natural performer," remembers Lloyd Webber. "I was somewhat of an enigma. Since then I've had to learn to look at a camera, but I don't do chat shows where I am supposed to be funny...
...when they were teenagers. As this partnership was formed, the other one in his life, with Rice, began to crack under the stress of Superstar. While Lloyd Webber felt embarrassed and humiliated by what he regarded as the "travesty" of the New York production, the more phlegmatic Rice was content to let it run its course and enjoy the success. A few months later, when Rice dropped out of a treatment of P.G. Wodehouse's unflappable butler, Jeeves, Lloyd Webber enlisted Playwright Alan Ayckbourn and put the show on the boards in Bristol. It eventually closed in London after...
...every line of dialogue, Reynolds relaxes into his role. He has become the Perry Como of action-movie stars, never wasting a motion or spending emotion. As written by Dennis Shryack and Michael Blodgett and directed by Jerry London, Rent-a-Cop rarely rouses itself beyond cliche; it looks content to mark time till it hits the less demanding venue of pay cable. This is the kind of no-frills, no-surprises movie that a box-office champ could coast on, but that greases an ex-champ's skids...