Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reporter-Researcher Cristina Garcia, who looked into trends in the Chicago area, does not own a VCR. "But," she says, "I already find myself browsing for films in video stores the same way I shop for books." San Francisco Correspondent Dick Thompson rented a machine to see what all the furor was about, and promptly ODed on movie tapes. "Strange things happen to rational people when they are faced with rack after rack of ad venture and romance in a video store," he muses. A VCR now heads Thompson's Christmas wish list. The children of Christopher Porterfield...
...change of face, but Eddie Murphy, 23, is one of the few to try a change of race. Appearing as host on his old show, Saturday Night Live, last week, the chameleonic comedian went Caucasian in a four-minute film. For viewers who missed it, SNL Executive Producer Dick Ebersol explains, "He gets on a city bus, and there's one black man on it. The instant the black man gets off and it's just white people, they pull out music and cards and have parties." Murphy also performed in a sketch called "Milestones," depicting South African...
Reported by Barrett Seaman/Washington and Dick Thompson/San Francisco...
...Feldstein. Who's got all of Ec 10 marching in line. Here's a Marx reader for further conjecture. In case you have missed that supplement lecture. For colleagues Stan Hoffman, Carnesale and Nye. More says to make Yankees and Russians say "hi." For Nye for Retch and for Dick Neustadt too. No chants in the Cabinet are waiting for you. Not even the Bay State went for old Fritz--For Labor or Treasury, ply the GOP with your wits...
...sorry fate of some big-budget movies to be remembered as the indifferent sequels to their own prerelease publicity. Mention Cleopatra and the memory swirls, not with images from the film but with tabloids screaming the latest indiscretion of Liz and Dick. Mention The Cotton Club 20 years from now, and the graybeards will have forgotten whether it was a good film or a bad one. Instead, they will gather their young ones around the video fireplace and enthrall them with this fable...