Word: friedman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yawk cab driver with both feet recklessly pressed on the accelerator pedal of life. East is East and South is South and never the twang shall meet, right? Not if you are familiar with Hollywood's perennial passion for cross-pollinating ethnic strains. Before you can say "Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys," the country kitten has made a bet with her manager that in two weeks she can turn this city rat into a down-home singing star. Anyone who has trouble predicting the order and outcome of each succeeding scene in this amiable airhead of a movie...
...Jackie Presser, who succeeded Williams as president in 1983. The charge would be that as secretary-treasurer of Cleveland's Local 507, a post he still holds, Presser signed checks making large payments of union funds to "ghost employees" who did no work. Presser's uncle, Allen Friedman, already has been convicted of receiving $165,000 in such payments. Another man, John Nardi Jr., has pleaded guilty to taking $109,000 in the same scheme...
Opinion about CNN is divided among its major network rivals, which have run news stories about the trial but little of the explicit testimony. Says Executive Producer Steve Friedman of NBC's Today: "If you can broadcast hostages being taken, you can show these trials." ABC's Nightline, however, aired a critical discussion of CNN's live coverage. Said Correspondent Betsy Aaron: "These trials have become spectator sport...
Before Director Ron Howard and his gargle of writers (Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman) arrange a satisfactorily romantic ending for their odd couple, they also manage to satirize everything from presidential politics to daytime television. They are a jostling, busily observant, funda mentally good-natured crew, and audiences are well advised to take a plunge on Splash. - By Richard Schickel...
While Bedelia, as Shirley, gives an admirable performance, the lines do not give her a chance to express the complete range of her character. She is stifled by Friedman's stiff unemotional dialogue. Unlike Rocky, with whom the audience seemed to sweat and also cheer. Shirley is a cold, almost superhuman character who seems to know exactly what she wants and how to get there. We watch her plow her way through personal conflicts, the male dominated world of the race track, with a hard-nosed determination that asks for no compassion. Shirley always wins her races, and we always...