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...soul of Candide and the hands of an expert mechanic. He hooks up as the "roadie" (bus driver and equipment manager) for a sleazy rock entrepreneur and falls immediately in love with Lola Bouilliabase (Kaki Hunter), a snaggletoothed, anorectic groupie whose mission in life is to sleep with Alice Cooper. "Isn't she one of Charlie's Angels?" asks Travis. Says Lola: "I can't believe you never heard of Alice Cooper! Don't you read T shirts?" Guess what? Travis becomes a roadie superstar and deposits Lola with Alice himself. But she follows the course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Great Rock-'n'-Roll Caravan | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

...taste of Russ Meyer's redneck sex movies. Roadie has bar brawls, earth quakes, sloppy eaters, hair-rollered harridans, fire-engine-red panties and lots of loud rock 'n' roll. In its second hour, the movie loses some of this mad enchantment: Guest Stars Alice Cooper and Deborah Harry (Blondie) do not jell with Rudolph's genially grotesque surrealism. But Roadie is still the weirdest, funniest movie of the summer, with the genuine energy of good pop music. Half a Loaf is better than none-or, as the star himself would croon it, one-half outta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Great Rock-'n'-Roll Caravan | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

...department promoted Frederick Cooper, assistant professor of History, to the position of associate professor. Cooper and the four denied tenure--not to mention some confused students--criticized the department for not publicizing clear criteria for promotion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walking the Plank | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

...thousands of Cubans in their 110-mile trek across the Straits of Florida, can still raise a glow of patriotic nostalgia in Americans. It is "a nation of immigrants," after all, as John Kennedy wrote 100 years after his Irish great-grandfather left County Wexford to become a cooper in Boston. But today Americans are having trouble rising to the occasion. Drifting into a recession whose depths they cannot yet judge, skittish about plant closings and lost jobs, about oil prices and taxes that already seem too high for Government services that provide too little, Americans are less disposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Guarding the Door | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

DIED. Charlotte Henry, 67, flaxen-haired Hollywood heroine, who starred in such prewar entertainments as Babes in Toyland, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and, most notably, the 1933 Alice in Wonderland, in which she played Alice to Cary Grant's Mock Turtle, Gary Cooper's White Knight and W.C. Fields' Humpty Dumpty; of a brain tumor; in San Diego...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 28, 1980 | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

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