Word: dudes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City's fashionable Central Park South and in Washington, D.C., is bully on his subject. "I got interested listening to Nixon's farewell speech to his staff," he says, "because he quoted T.R.'s elegy to his dying wife." The result was an unproduced screenplay, The Dude from New York City. Some four years later it became a biography of unusual grace and attracted fresh interest in the 26th President. Indeed, since Morris' 1979 book, David McGullough's popular Mornings on Horseback has captured the young T.R. in a vivid collection of vignettes...
...eleven months on death row have been quiet, compared with his Stateville years, when he took part in 15 attacks on inmates and guards, instigated at least one prison riot, trashed a courtroom during a trial and hit a warden with a broom handle. "I'm no bad dude," he says, "just an antisocial individual." The third of 13 children, Brisbon thinks that his upbringing by a strict black Muslim father made him different: "I was taught to be a racist and not like whites. As I grew up, I decided I didn't like nobody...
...Night Live, will fit into the serious plot. 48 Hours is obviously not Animal House. But then again, Eddie Murphy is not Steve Martin. Eddie Murphy is first and foremost a character actor; his funniest skits on the TV show are when he becomes Buckwheat, or a stereotyped bad dude. In 48 Hours, he checks the manta of Saturday Night Live and straightforwardly portrays a cool guy with a good sense of humor. He injects a gritty comic relief without destroying all the tension built up by the scenes of violence and urban realism...
...production of Mack & Mabel. Writer Larry King, who worked, and occasionally collided, with Tune during rehearsals of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, is not even sure about the first half. "Man, I don't know!" he writes in his book The Whorehouse Papers. "I think that dude grew up on a different planet." Tune, 43, does not smoke or drink, and his West Side Manhattan apartment is even sparer than he is. Almost all the interior walls have been knocked down, and the only furniture is a bed. When guests drop by, they may sit on nine...
...glacial standoffs or public snits. A fourth Alamo irregular, 6-ft. 7-in. Director and Choreographer Tommy Tune, fears that the shorter King will "strike" him: "I go home exhausted and all I can see when I close my eyes is your angry face!" King scratches his head. "That dude grew up on a different planet," he decides...