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...Olivier's life and career. He was the son of a fifth-generation Anglican clergyman, yet he found his soul upon the wicked stage. The foremost classical actor of his time, he attained his first eminence as a West End matinee idol, and his second as a Hollywood dreamboat in Wuthering Heights (1939) and Rebecca (1940). Though he pored over scripts like a new critical scholar, he was an irrepressibly physical stage performer, scaling balconies and executing dizzying falls with Fairbanksian elan. Like many men, Olivier housed a congeries of contradictions; uniquely, he transformed them into living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laurence Olivier: 1907-1989: Absolutely An Actor. Born to It | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...whom we will call Lucy, quickly found. She was 37 and divorced and was after the sort of man who sets hearts pounding on L.A. Law. She was introduced to Nigel, who was pleasant in every way, except, oh, horror, he was bald, and Lucy's vision of a dreamboat did not include an absence of hair. At first she was cold to Nigel's advances. But gradually her heart warmed, and last December they were married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago Make Me a Perfect Match | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...sweat on his upper lip and the shadow of his heavy whiskers. Kennedy had the video sense to address the camera, and the American people, while Nixon addressed himself to Kennedy, as a pre-video debater would. Some had thought the 43-year-old Democrat a depthless rich-boy dreamboat who missed too many votes in the Senate. His only previous executive experience ended with his getting his PT boat sawed in half by a Japanese destroyer. But the first debate established him in the public mind as at least the equal of the two-term Vice President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Myth and Memory | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...relationship that develops between Frankie and Ulysses, her robot dreamboat, is pleasant but conventionally screwball. This seems rather dismaying, considering that Director Seidelman showed such a fresh eye and so much wayward comic originality in 1985's Desperately Seeking Susan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Making Mr. Right | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

Little Shop's Faustian dilemma emerges when the plant wants something in return: blood. Named "Audrey II" by Seymour in honor of his dreamboat, the wisecracking, ghetto-smart plant (whose booming voice is performed by Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops) bellows "Feed me!" to the cringing Krelborn. How he deals with this unusual request is the problem of Little Shop...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: Powered Plant | 1/9/1987 | See Source »

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