Word: disks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM In Saigon, 1965, the war sneaks up on Disk Jockey Robin Williams, darkening and then silencing his mad-lib monologues. This high comedy from Director Barry Levinson is 1987's deftest evocation of Viet Nam's surrealism...
...word on the subject -- he appears in Saigon in 1965 out of uniform and out of step with army manners, protocol and discipline. An irrepressibly irreverent motormouth, he is unable to fit the format of Armed Forces Radio (basically hygiene lectures and Mantovani records), where he is the new disk jockey...
...recent years the proliferation of "raunch radio" personalities like Howard Stern, the acid-tongued New York disk jockey, has raised a public outcry over broadcast vulgarity. Last April the FCC responded by altering its definition of what constitutes indecent programming. Under the old guidelines a program was deemed indecent only if it used one or more of the "seven dirty words" made famous in a comedy routine by George Carlin. The new ruling broadened the standard to include anything that depicts sexual or excretory activity in terms that are "patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast...
...reigning technobandits, none was more brazen or accomplished than McVey, who had been shipping technology to the Soviet Union and arranging computer-training classes for Soviet engineers since the early 1970s. The equipment transferred reportedly included high-capacity computer disk drives, as well as imaging systems that could be used in the study of satellite photographs. McVey had obtained the products through four companies he controlled in California's Orange County...
...life -- whose grating voice is, finally and poetically, strangled by a telephone cord. And as feminism found its voice in the early '70s, Hollywood shouted back. In Clint Eastwood's Play Misty for Me (1971), Jessica Walter is a woman who has a brief affair with a Carmel, Calif., disk jockey (Eastwood) and is soon threatening him, abducting his girlfriend and coming at him with a knife. Sound familiar? It sounded so familiar to Carpenter and De Palma that they passed on directing Fatal Attraction at least partly because of its echoes from Eastwood's film...