Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possibly it lives also as Sigourney Weaver's debut movie, for she was wonderfully effective as Ripley, the junior officer who must finally face down the monster in single combat. Cool, intelligent, yet vulnerable (and, of course, striking in appearance), she brings all these qualities to the sequel, which, seven years later, should make her a major star. For this movie stands to be something its predecessor was not, a megahit. And it deserves to be, for it is a remarkable accomplishment: a sequel that exceeds its predecessor in the reach of its appeal while giving Weaver new emotional dimensions...
...three-dimensional scale. There are no live people in books. Even in publishing there are few." The biggest adjustment came when the author donned tights for a cameo role as -- what else? -- a nutcracker. "I did it only because Carroll asked me to," Sendak says of his film debut, but admits, "At 58, to have my legs admired by young dancers was wonderful...
...life's endless informal competition for the most misguided venture, try this combination: a first-time playwright; a cast of relative unknowns; a depressing and largely forgotten incident of history; and a director born in France and trained in Britain making his U.S. debut with a show about that quintessentially American subject, baseball. The result would seem foreordained to be disaster. But Out!, the story of eight Chicago White Sox players who deliberately lost the 1919 World Series for a few thousand dollars a man, is instead an off-Broadway joy. Poignant, intelligent, funny and morally alert, it shows what...
...Jupiter, and we have this wonderful historic footage of men landing on the moon.' " TV's early programming was preserved only haphazardly, and much of the museum's job has been to locate "lost" material. Still missing, for instance, are the first Super Bowl and Johnny Carson's debut as regular host of the Tonight show...
Each person is a likely candidate to be dropped from the team, for reasons ranging from the player's age to a recent slump. During the performance, which spans "The Kid's" pitching debut, the actors constantly banter back and forth about which one will be cut. Through the funny repartee, that ranges from self-criticism to denigration, the Los Angeles-based playwright raises his characters from stereotypes to more complex figures...