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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also exotically furnished), the chances are excellent that you will shortly find yourself racing penniless through a rainstorm, trying to cope with a suicide attempt and a subway-fare increase, the consequences of a broken cash register at distracted John Heard's Terminal Bar and a cocktail waitress (Teri Garr) who is woeful in her work and sleeps in a bed surrounded by rattraps. But that is only the beginning of Paul's After Hours adventures. He has yet to escape a Mohawk haircut at the Cafe Berlin and taking the rap for a series of burglaries perpetrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mean Streets in Nighttown After Hours | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...Fonda's workout tape--along with sequels like her Prime Time Workout and Workout Challenge--has inspired a horde of other celebrities to try getting Americans in shape via video. In Debbie Reynolds' Do It Debbie's Way, an exercise class sprinkled with familiar faces (Florence Henderson, Teri Garr, Shelley Winters) bends and stretches to big-band music while Debbie cracks jokes and offers encouragement. Considerably more demanding is Raquel Welch's Total Beauty and Fitness. The 44-year-old star folds her body into positions that will leave most of her viewers in awe. The macho Armed Forces Workout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Getting Tips From Tapes | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

Overshadowed by her two co-stars. Terri Garr nevertheless proves her versatility here. Often cast as the most adorable character Garr here makes Jake's mom something more pathetic than just a middle aged woman in need of a good shampoo...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: All in the Family | 10/31/1984 | See Source »

Firstborn, like few recent films, offers a happy reminder that acting can make a film. With Ghostbusters. Murray, Ackroyd, and Ramis make a comedy even without a plot. Here, Collect, Weller, and Garr make a storing film into one of the best. Firstborn does not try to make a social statement by inserting treatises into its characters mouths, rattling off stats about divorce or runaway kids, in the style of some cheap television production. Instead Firstborn is a personal statement offering less pat answers than just a painful and powerful reminder to give pause...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: All in the Family | 10/31/1984 | See Source »

...route to his leading role alongside Terri Garr and Peter Weller in the new Paramount film was less secure. "I did a lot of production in school," he says. "A friend of mine was doing commercials and she said to go for it." After some dozen spots for the Madison Avenue set, he landed a role in The Torch Song Trilogy. "I played a battered child who was gay and adopted by a drag queen." He says, holding back a slight smile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Portrait of the Artist | 10/31/1984 | See Source »

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