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When Beth Ann begins to worry about the car dealer she didn't pick, the unfunded college student and the child still awaiting the transplant, the hosts gloss over her anxiety. As they croon to her that they "feel so warm and wonderful...in one big happy family," they mock the illusion of the American dream...

Author: By Phoebe Cushman, | Title: Acting, Direction Make for Lively 'Life' and 'God': | 3/19/1992 | See Source »

...lured about 20 of his closest friends to the Yale game with a sterling promise: he would croon the national anthem as he had one earlier in the season. The friends showed up, but so did the Harvard Band...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: 'Hey, Hey, How Ya Doin'?' | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...only does he have a socko cameo role in The Freshman -- he sings, among other odd offerings, Tequila and Bob Dylan's Maggie's Farm -- but he will be in Atlantic City this Saturday (after 10 years in exile) to croon former Miss Americas down the runway. There he goes again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comeback of the Week | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...former life of glamour, riches and power reduced to shards. Impassive and wan, her face puffy, she is a long way from the days when she was runner-up in the Miss Manila beauty contest, or danced cheek to cheek with President Lyndon Johnson, or took the microphone to croon for state visitors at the Malacanang Palace, or dazzled foreign capitals in her exotic Philippine gowns. Back then Imelda was a force to be reckoned with -- governor of the Manila district, Minister of Human Settlements. There was even talk that she might succeed her husband as President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judge Wapner, Where Are You? | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

Around these mismatched romancers, writer-directors John Musker and Ron Clements have assembled enough entertaining creatures to stock a theme park. Sebastian the crab (voiced by Samuel E. Wright) is a Caribbean Jiminy Cricket, fussing avuncularly over Ariel but bound to break into calypso croon. Louis the French chef (Rene Auberjonois) brings sadistic elan to his dicing, flaying and serving of les poissons. Ursula (Pat Carroll) the sea witch is a fat, shimmying squid with malefic revenge in mind -- the sort of Disney horror queen who has given kids nightmares for a half-century. All these characters are given witty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Festive Film Fare for Thanksgiving | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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