Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been easy parts to fill. Wheeler wanted a rugged star to play a college track coach who happens to be gay. And despite all the gains made by homosexuals in the U.S. in recent years, playing the part of a gay is still considered by many to be a fast ride to oblivion...
...news is the same. Clear skies, or thin empty clouds, temperatures already in the 70s or above and not a trace of dew on the land. When a slight shower came a few days ago, the baked land and superheated air seemed to cause the droplets to vanish as fast as they fell. A ferocious drought feeds itself...
They're in your local video store, but you may have to look hard to find them. Past the shelves of fast-renting movie releases like Dirty Dancing and The Untouchables. Beyond the racks filled with vintage Hollywood comedies, Hitchcock suspense classics and slasher epics. Ah, the Jane Fonda workout tapes; now you're getting warm. Welcome to the wonderful world of original programming for home video...
Ever the land of intrigue, Haiti is rife with theories about what happened and why. Many believe that Manigat, eager to assert his own authority over the army, simply moved too fast in his attempt to shake up the military's high command. Others assert that the initiative came from army commanders made uneasy by Manigat's campaign to stamp out corruption and contraband, a major source of income for many military men. According to this theory, Namphy was merely a pawn, forced into action by his own men. Others point to a Machiavellian third possibility: that the coup...
...gags come fast and furiously, not as frenetically as in Airplane!, but almost. The breakfast table in the Zamundan palace is so long that Akeem talks to his parents at the other end through an intercom. Hanging in a Black businessman's home is a copy of a famous Manet--only the girl in the picture is now Black. Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche appear briefly as the Duke brothers, the heartless business kingpins from Trading Places, but now, they're panhandlers. Most of the gags are hilarious, which is good because they are the meat of this film...