Word: flamingo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Club was one of last Christmas' turkeys. Despite its lavish production, a big-name director (Francis Coppola) and star (Richard Gere) and huge advance publicity, the $47 million show-biz epic was squeezed out in the scramble for holiday audiences by such hits as Beverly Hills Cop and The Flamingo...
...from a courtside row can be heard in the mezzanine: "Larry Bird, why are you so white?" Bird laughs later. "It's amazing. I guess I'm a white superstar in a black man's game, but it's open to all colors." Sometimes from exertion he turns a flamingo shade of pink. Perching on one leg at nearly every pause in the game, he compulsively rubs and preens the tops and bottoms of his feet with both hands, an interesting reaction to a confessed sense that he is slipping, when he is not. All over Boston, kids are doing...
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There is the sweet air of an authentic memoir about The Flamingo Kid, which recollects an adolescent experience in gentle but nonsoporific tranquillity. The time is 1963, and Jeffrey Willis (Matt Dillon) is a poor Brooklyn boy working for the summer at an upper-middle-class Long Island beach club. There he meets a car dealer (Richard Crenna), slightly shady and blatantly materialistic, who tries to tempt him away from the good values of his decent dad (Hector Elizondo), a plumber whose trade may be humble but whose spirit is not. There is originality and poignancy in Neal Marshall...
...long been a bombshell, on TV's Flamingo Road among other places. But in Time Bomb, an NBC-TV movie that will be aired later this month, Morgan Fairchild, 34, will add a more literal meaning to her reputation as a mankiller. Fairchild plays the leader of a gang of gun-toting terrorists who attempt to hijack a truckload of weapons-grade plutonium in Texas. "I hope it doesn't seem too Hollywood," Fairchild says. "I have this little porcelain face, and short of taking a hammer to it, there's nothing you can do." Still...