Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After his first marriage ended in divorce, Ginsburg married Obstetrician- Gynecologist Hallee Morgan in 1981. Their two-year-old daughter is also named Hallee Morgan. When asked why the little girl does not have her father's surname, Christopher DeMuth, president of the American Enterprise Institute and an old friend of Ginsburg's, told the New York Times, "It is a modern marriage taken to the ultimate."Could Douglas Ginsburg, to the horror of some conservatives, turn out to be an ardent feminist...
...drama series for Moonlighting, a show patterned after Hollywood's breezy romantic comedies of the 1930s. Michael J. Fox was named best actor in a comedy for Family Ties, whose most celebrated segment last season featured Fox's character in a spiritual crisis over the death of a friend...
Unfortunately, the improvising can often sound tinny and unconvincing. In a September episode of The Golden Girls, Sophia (Estelle Getty) met an old gent on a park bench, then discovered that her new friend had Alzheimer's disease. Never mind that the series has stooped to making jokes about Sophia's own near senility; this case of Alzheimer's was so mild that the viewer hardly noticed it before the fellow was whisked offscreen...
...film here, but Attenborough and Screenwriter John Briley can't find it. The men who made Gandhi turn their Steve Biko (Denzel Washington, from TV's St. Elsewhere) into a saintly apparition; he is first seen swathed in blinding sunlight and last seen shimmering in the memory of his friend Donald Woods (Kevin Kline), a white newspaper editor. Biko is a passive hero, valued not for what he achieves but for what he endures. He is a placard masquerading as a character. For all the strength and dignity that Washington invests in Biko, this saint really is elsewhere...
Maria, a bed-wise South Carolina belle and wife of an aging Jewish businessman who has made a fortune selling charter flights to Mecca-bound Arabs, discourages Sherman from reporting the incident to the police. Unfortunately, the mother of the badly injured boy is a friend of the Rev. Reginald Bacon's, whose specialty is political pressure and misappropriating social-service funds for his private use, an activity he justifies as "steam control." Bacon is shrewd, cunning, outrageous and, like the other shrewd, cunning, outrageous characters in Bonfire, not necessarily bigger than life...