Word: fernando
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film's tempo comes from '80s MTV, the story is straight '40s MGM. Like On the Town, Earth Girls sets three naive voyagers down in a bustling American fun world (the San Fernando Valley) for 24 hours of dance and romance. This is, after all, a love story about people from two different worlds. Or, as Davis explains to Goldblum, "You're an alien and I'm from the Valley. We may not even be anatomically correct for each other...
...Which of these active pitchers has struck out the most batters--Oakland's Dennis Eckersley, New York's Tommy John, Detroit's Jack Morris, Chicago's Rick Sutcliffe or Los Angeles' Fernando Valenzuela...
...boyish 5-ft. 9-in. dynamo with the gap-toothed grin was reared in a $9,000 tract house in the San Fernando Valley. He originally wanted to become a doctor, but show business kept catching his eye. Sally Field, a classmate at Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, remembers him standing quietly in the back of the room, watching her drama-class rehearsals...
...Marxist terms as "an artist of the people" miss the point. Goya had many disillusioned moments, and by the last years of his life, when -- sick and old and bitterly disappointed by the betrayal of the liberal Spanish constitution at the hands of that squat reactionary King, Fernando VII -- he moved to France, they became a continuous pessimism. He never idealized the Spanish proletariat: it was el populacho, the 18th century "mob," a many-headed beast capable of every atrocity and stupidity as well as sublime moments of collective courage...
...driver to pull off the road. But as Urqidi left her car, the VW took off. With lights flashing and sirens screaming, Urqidi and two other patrol cars set off in less than hot pursuit of the escaping vehicle. And followed. And followed. And followed. Through the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties. For four hours and more than 150 miles, tag teams of highway patrol cars and a Los Angeles police helicopter tailed the VW, which never exceeded the 55-m.p.h. speed limit, until driver Brett Barish finally ran out of gas near...