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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lead characters, the steadies-to-be Danny and Sandy (remember John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John?), are one of the show's few weak points. The oh-so-pure Sandra Dee (Susie Glick), though competent, is not entirely convincing. Her singing generally seems a bit forced, as if she wanted to wax operatic. Likewise, her acting is perhaps too stiff for her part...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: Grease is the Word | 12/13/1985 | See Source »

...THEIR PART, the two actors portray the husbands to look, accurately, like Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. In one of the movie's funnier scenes--the proverbial railroad station scene--the husbands cross paths en route to a train and realize they are wearing matching punctuation mark sweaters. Philippe's sweater has an exclamation point on it, which defines him perfectly as he rants and raves through the movie as a know-nothing know-it-all. Vincent's sweater, however, bears a question mark because his ranting and raving springs from his utter cluelessness. What a pair...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: A Testimony Against Men | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

...issue of music censorship received national attention following a series of circus-like Senate hearings that pitted the likes of Sen. Paula Hawkins (R-Fla.) and Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) against Zappa and Dee Snyder of the heavy metal faves Twisted Sister...

Author: By Teresa L. Johnson, | Title: Zappa Defends Obscene Lyrics | 11/6/1985 | See Source »

...kindred spirits appeared before the Senate Commerce Committee to thrash out rock's putative excesses. Gore faced at least one friendly face on the committee: her husband, the Democratic Senator from Tennessee. The opposition included such music-business figures as Rock Avant-Gardist Frank Zappa, John Denver, and Dee Snider of Twisted Sister. Whatever their political effects, the hearings were certainly high on entertainment value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rock Is a Four-Letter Word | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...announced that "the complete list of P.M.R.C. demands reads like an instruction manual for some sinister kind of toilet-training program to housebreak all composers and performers." Nebraska Democrat J. James Exon suggested ominously that "unless the music industry cleans up its act, there might well be legislation." Singer Dee Snider showed up in tight jeans and a cut-off T shirt and fought past his nervousness to tell everyone that the band's song Under the Blade, allegedly a glorification of S-M, was in fact about fear of surgery. "The only sado-masochism present," he insisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rock Is a Four-Letter Word | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

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