Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Director John Sayles turns a 1920 miners' strike into the low- budget epic Matewan. -- Shorts: Dirty Dancing and Mermaids...
...world and made him into a pop-culture phenomenon, part dancing phantom and part homeboy Kewpie. Bad's first single, a bonbon called I Just Can't Stop Loving You, was a perfect love ballad for parlous times: sexy but hygienic, passionate but never lustful. Radio programmers grumbled at Epic's choice of a low-profile make-out tune for the album's first single. None of this got in the way of the song, however: it is now No. 2 on the Billboard chart...
Lewis, 26, is a singer of sorts, Louganis, 27, a dancer debuting in Indianapolis in October. Forgetting their parts in the epic beach movie Dirty Laundry, both aspire to be actors. "When the bus pulled up to the village the other day," Louganis said, "and I heard someone mention, 'Five to a room, ten to a bathroom,' I thought: 'Why am I still doing this?' " But the answer came to him even before he became the first three-time Pan Am champion of the three-meter springboard. "I still have goals, tremendous goals." At the diving nationals in April, Louganis...
...these ups and downs stem directly from accounts of the mismanagement, which reached epic heights, or perhaps depths, at PTL. From a jury-rigged studio, which began broadcasting in 1974 from an old furniture store in Charlotte, Jim and Tammy Bakker had nurtured a Christian entertainment colossus. But the mountains of documents at PTL show that the ministry ran, almost literally, on a wing and a prayer. At one time the ministry spent employee retirement funds to pay operating expenses. PTL had no reliable internal audits, no checks and balances for financial accountability and often no receipts or other devices...
...business. Earlier on the day of the grass-borne boats, he and his wife Debba, 35, and daughter Bronwen, 6, drove down to Charleston from Columbia, where the writer is what he calls a "schoolteacher" at the University of South Carolina. (Dickey has the knack of making modesty seem epic.) His destination was Chapter Two, a bookstore where he was scheduled to sign copies of Alnilam. It was not the impersonal ritual that authors usually endure. Dickey greeted customers and actively solicited their patronage. The result, according to Owner Susan Davis, was that nearly half of the 100 copies...