Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week E.T. will beam back down to 1,500 theaters for a saturation rerelease. At Amblin Entertainment, Spielberg's studio-within-a- studio on the Universal Pictures lot, he is shepherding another pair of pictures, Young Sherlock Holmes and The Money Pit, toward Christmas premieres. September will see the debut of Spielberg's NBC anthology series Amazing Stories. He is directing four of the first season's 22 shows, and has written the stories...
Nathan Zuckerman made his debut in Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer (1979); the hero was an earnest young author in the process of learning that art and life issued contradictory demands. By the time of Zuckerman Unbound (1981), Nathan had become absurdly rich and famous, thanks to a scandalous best-selling novel that estranged him from his father and the rest of his family. Zuckerman's punishment came in The Anatomy Lesson (1983), in which he appeared as a neurasthenic wreck hoping to start life all over again as a medical student...
Meanwhile, MTV and Showtime will be making their Cambridge debut around this time next year'. City Manager Robert W. Healy selected American Cablesystems of Beverly, Mass, to wire the city for cable television...
...their politics. Hers is an evenhanded account told with much poignancy. Regrettably, however, the novel stumbles to a close when the author falls back upon one of Garcia Marquez's hoariest literary devices: the discovery of an old manuscript that predicts the family's whole history. Though Allende's debut is full of promise, she still needs to break away from the domination of her unwitting mentor before she can fully display her distinctive voice...
...explored the subject more exhaustively than Dr. Ruth Westheimer. But even the tirelessly cheerful radio and television talk-show sexpert gets worn down by the grind of filmmaking. "It's much harder than being a psychosexual counselor," she says. Dr. Ruth went to Paris to make her film debut opposite Gerard Depardieu and Sigourney Weaver in a French farce, One Woman or Two. Westheimer plays a rich American who bankrolls Depardieu's research into the 2,000-yearold remains of the first Frenchwoman. When Depardieu shows up at the airport looking for Westheimer, he meets Weaver instead, and the pair...