Word: dryer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...department at Columbia Pictures. Guber quickly became chief of production and, by the time he left in 1976, his credits included The Way We Were and Shampoo. Peters, 44, an Angeleno who spent a year in reform school, broke into the movie industry using a hairbrush and a blow dryer. After coiffing Barbra Streisand and then moving in with her, the hairstyling tycoon produced her 1976 hit movie, A Star Is Born. Eventually the talkative Peters produced two other Streisand vehicles, The Main Event and What's Up, Doc?, as well as the hit comedy Caddyshack...
...supplies, snapped up wrenches to turn off the gas and prepacked earthquake kits that sell for $30 to $210. Some of the preparations had an only-in-Hollywood quality. One woman whose emergency gear includes a butane curling iron says she is looking for a battery-operated hair dryer that can be used if electricity is knocked out. "Why look a mess even in a crisis?" she teases...
...rising tide of assaults has created a rippling pool of fear. Some teachers now send little girls to the bathroom in pairs. Young women say they are afraid to take a shower or run the hair dryer; the noise could mask an assailant's approach. At college parties, many coeds clutch their cocktail glasses, worried that knockout drops could be slipped into their drinks...
...well be married already." She has discovered Ted in a compromising costume with another woman and responded by trashing their condo: microwaving his football, toasting his funny cigarettes in the VCR, dropping his gold watch in the Disposall. And now, she notes, "there's a giant blow-dryer in my pool." Well, a UFO actually, with three horny, color-coordinated aliens (Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans) itching to spend the night. Valerie had better listen to her cute boss Candy (Julie Brown): "Sit down. Relax. Have a mental margarita...
...wearing a cook's white uniform and cap, embellished by purple wraparound sunglasses and a matching purple foulard scarf. He directs the chapel choir, and attendance has doubled since he got there. On Saturdays, his wife Adrienne, a former hair stylist with the television show Solid Gold, brings a dryer and a bag of salon products to primp his curly coiffure...