Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tattletales, is replacing Raul Julia for two weeks in the musical Nine. Of all the recent replacements, however, the most interesting may be Morgan Fairchild, 32, who last week joined the cast of the off-Broadway comedy Geniuses. Morgan steps into the role of a leggy, not-so-dumb blond up for a nude walk-on in a grossly expensive epic war film. Fairchild is working for scale ($195.80 a week) to break out of the blitz of vixen parts that Hollywood has offered since her bitchy role on television's Flamingo Road. "All they want...
...paper. Instead, Scheider often seems just as unsure of himself as any patient. In one sequence, Rice steals Brooke's keys and sneaks through the auction house where she works, in an attempt to search her desk for evidence. Suddenly, he stops and says aloud. "This is dumb." The abruptness of the self-deprecating remark underscores his ambivalent feelings: While Dr. Rice the shrink recognizes an element of the ridiculous in his decision to play detective. Sam Rice the man is prey to an overpowering need to satisfy his curiosity...
...letter signed by all 40 team members, the 0-5 Cambridge Rindge and Latin football squad complains about the coaching style and temperament of Coach Joe Restic. Restic shrugs off the charges, but he is forced to apologize to the local PTA for saying the players "are just dumb townies...
...landscape with all the interwoven relationships of a small, isolated community. Marie's grandmother (Simone Signoret) acts as an omniscient narrator, lyrically introducing all the characters and explaining all the village's social intricacies. All sorts of representative characters abound--star crossed lovers, old hags doubling as witches, and dumb country bumpkins. Marie meets all these characters and is swept along into their mundane lives until the volcanic outset of her maturity...
...channel had more than its share of premier-week problems. One director resigned in a huff because a series was "full of language I would not use in front of my own children." There was a protest demonstration by members of the Deaf and Dumb Broadcasting Campaign because the channel has no plans for captioned programming. Meanwhile, the actors' union ordered its 30,000 thespians not to appear on any commercials destined for the new channel, which cannot afford the handsome residual rates paid...