Word: devil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scenario is not too elaborate or cynical for the byzantine world of show biz: sponsor recalcitrance triggers stress. Tapes are leaked, positions taken, battle lines drawn, articles written. No movie since CBS's 1980 Holocaust film Playing for Time has stirred such a dust devil of ideological p.r., but the stakes are even larger here. The Day After cost an opulent $7 million, and its promotion budget may ultimately equal that fig ure. ABC, gambling that it will make up in ratings what it misses in ad dollars, schedules the film for sweeps week, when the three networks...
...Miss America expresses thespian designs. With the exception of Bess Myerson (1945), winners seem to find sustaining a career in the public eye more difficult than gaining the title. Rosemary LaPlanche (1941) is not much remembered today, though she made 84 movies, including Strangler of the Swamp and Devil Bat's Daughter. Lee Meriwether (1955) has had roles enough, but her name has failed to attain the tip of the national tongue. Mary Ann Mobley (1959) made those Elvis Presley films, and has had trouble shaking the image ever since. Mobley's runner-up, Anita Bryant, is another...
...this week. There is no party planned as far as he knows, but, he says, with a Yoda-like smile, "I wouldn't oppose one." He predicts that Ronald Reagan will run again and win. But Sam is loyal to his party. Says he: "I guess if the devil ran as a Democrat, I'd vote for him." The former Robert Zimmerman of Hibbing, Minn., first publicly showed an interest in his spiritual roots in 1970, when he attended Jewish Defense League meetings. Then his 1979 Slow Train Coming album suggested that he had become a born-afresh...
...Waterfront. Yet the former college boxer's pugnacious manner suits his controversial role in business. Kerzner, 48, is southern Africa's casino king. In a country so morally conservative that movie theaters are closed on Sundays and Playboy magazine is banned as the work of the devil, Kerzner has succeeded in assembling a $270 million hotel chain featuring gambling casinos, show business superstars, topless chorus lines and soft-core porn movies...
...West Germany's feline population, were killed last year alone. According to Dr. Erwin Muermann of the Bonn Cat Protection Initiative, the present epidemic of cattiness may have its roots in a 15th century bull of Pope Innocent VIII. It declared that cats were possessed by the devil, says Muermann, and caused 100,000 women who owned cats to be burned at the stake-accompanied, of course, by their pets...