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Near the end of the show, a valet (Luke Fleckenstein) who initially incarcerated the threesome, reappears to set free our unhappy roommates. But the coward, the baby-killer and the lesbian have become inured to one another; they cannot bring themselves to walk out the door...

Author: By Deborah E. Copaken, | Title: Professional Existentialism | 11/21/1986 | See Source »

...faltered. A Union private yelled, "I can't see!" as he stumbled and fell into the weeds. Another Northerner lost his nerve and began to run. His colonel drew a pistol and yelled, "You have two seconds to get back into that line or you will be dead." The coward slunk back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Bang, Bang! You're History, Buddy | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...women are fully integrated into the group, the crew members are 20th century grunts unregenerately projected into the far future. Led by the usual by-the-books lieutenant who is incompetent and by the usual kick-ass sergeant who is supercompetent, their numbers naturally include Hudson (Bill Paxton), a coward, and Hicks (Michael Biehn), a quiet, steadfast type, who turns out to be the bravest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Help! They're Back! | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

...Cullum reprised his title number from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965). Meg Bussert and Martin Vidnovic, stars of a 1980 Broadway revival of Brigadoon, performed Almost Like Being in Love. Julie Andrews sang Lerner's favorite non-Lerner showstopper, If Love Were All, from Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet. Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. said, "Few men in our melancholy age brought so much pleasure to so many people." Loewe, 85 and living in Palm Springs, Calif., sent a letter addressing Lerner. "It won't be long," he said, "before we'll be writing together again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, Wasn't It All Loverly | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...since Noel Coward . . . well, has a comic dramatist written vernacular dialogue this smart this fast. Hughes has been known to bat out 74 script pages in a night; no first draft takes more than a week. Such informed, automatic writing demands that you live inside your subject, and for Hughes the bell is always ringing on the first day of class. "He has an incredible memory--visual, audio, emotional--of his own high school years," notes James Spader, who played the deliciously haughty preppie Steff in Pretty in Pink. "He's very much in touch with the adolescent part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Well, Hello Molly Ringwald! | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

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