Word: gameshow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talking toys are cuddly, cute or even particularly appealing. Galoob's Mr. Gameshow ($129) features Gus Glitz, a fast-talking, lacquer-haired impresario who stands atop a blinking, bleeping game board and hosts homemade variations on Wheel of Fortune and other word games. With microphone flailing and jaw flapping, Mr. Gameshow dishes out play money and bad jokes with equal largesse: "Nice jacket. Who shot the sofa...
...Buckaroo Banzai. Indeed, though the Mad Max films have been elevated to popular status, Mad Max III has retained much of what makes some cult films, "cult classics." The bizarre side of life and death are captured better in the wonderfully absurd characters of this film--e.g. the hunchbacked gameshow host-executioner--than they could possibly be in a "serious" film. In other words, Mad Max films, though violent and bizarre...
...announced last week that he was abandoning his career in dance. He had received some encouraging reviews, but it seemed unlikely that he would ever become a solo star. Ron said that he intended to concentrate on "other interests," which reportedly included writing. Meanwhile, Maureen Reagan, 42, has added "gameshow personality" to her résumé, at $1,100 per appearance. Maureen and her husband, Dennis Revell, 29, a cable-TV consultant, taped a Tattletales last month, followed by her guest spot this week on The New $25,000 Pyramid. Finally, Reagan's younger daughter Patti Davis...