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...senior at Collegiate. During the 1970s and early '80s, he produced movies (The Blockhouse, The Border) and plays (Ladies of the Alamo). Some shows featured such stars as Peter Sellers and Jack Nicholson, but none achieved much critical or financial success. Bronfman was a bit luckier in a fling at songwriting. Dionne Warwick recorded a love song he wrote, Whisper in the Dark. Efer "eloped" (his word) with Sherry Brewer, a black model-actress and close friend of Warwick. They had three children before divorcing in 1991; early this year, Bronfman took a second wife, the daughter of a Venezuelan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dress Rehearsal, Or Opening Night? | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

...music from the concerto, she cannot forget the tragedy that was her past life. Throughout the film different people seek her aid. These include Lucille (Charlotte Very), an erotic dancer who lives downstairs from her, and Olivier (Benoit Regent); Patrice's former associate and a one-time fling of Julie's. Refusing to be drawn from her self-imposed solitude, Julie only concedes to help when an emergency arises with Lucille and she must go to the strip club where the dancer works...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: `Blue' Reveals the Moving Emotional Life of a Modern Artist | 2/17/1994 | See Source »

Sarah, an 11-year-old who played second base for one team I coached, was the perfect counterexample to the "fairer sex" stereotype. Sarah would fling her body at ground balls that seemed out of her reach, spit, and power long drives into left-center field for extra-base hits...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Toward a More Perfect League | 1/12/1994 | See Source »

...Johnson at a time when he thought he could talk openly and unctuously to the media. His wilder moments, while they were the endless topic of inside gossip and mirth, rarely surfaced in print. That time would end within a few months, but not before he had one last fling at fulsome flattery. From a call to the New York Times' Arthur Krock: "Well, Arthur, you're a mighty wonderful friend . . . and I need you now more than I ever did before, and I read your column just this minute . . . and I just thought how fortunate I was to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency Reach Out and Twist an Arm | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...school graduate who leaves her native Tennessee town--a place she claims she was lucky to escape without getting beat up or pregnant--to start a new life in Panama Beach City, Florida. She quickly finds a job selling souvenirs at Chamber's Beach Emporium and has a quick fling with the manager's heartthrob, fast-lane-living son Ricky. Ruby senses immediately that he is just the sort of guy she left Tennessee to escape and quickly regroups to examine her priorities. The film is narrated with excerpts from Ruby's diary, which records experiences, the personalities she encounters...

Author: By Deborah E. Kopald, | Title: 'Ruby' Almost a Gem | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

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