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...Amateur Night, a blend of revival meeting and The Gong Show, the Apollo audience is the true star. A favored artist -- say, the 300-lb. gent whose falsetto carries him through an all-stops-out aria from Dreamgirls -- wins whooping applause from this Colosseum of 1,500 self-appointed Caesars. Less appreciated acts -- the Whitney Houston clones and clumsy break dancers -- are pelted with catcalls until a figure known as the Executioner darts across the stage in clown garb and chases them into the wings. Usually the performers soldier on to the end, broken but unbowing. Surely, as starmaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Welcome To New Harlem! | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (NBC, April 16-18, 9 p.m. EDT). Phileas Fogg, that globe-trotting Victorian gent, is back in a remake of the Oscar-winning 1956 film based on Jules Verne's novel. Pierce Brosnan, Lee Remick and Peter Ustinov head the proverbial all-star cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Apr. 17, 1989 | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...coast will stop by to pick up his deluxe, shiny white box. Inside: beluga caviar on thinny-thin slices of white bread, a wedge of brie, English biscuits, a string-bean salad and a chocolate mousse. Fellow passengers look on jealously, perhaps not suspecting that this discerning gent finds $95 a small price to pay for being spared an airline lunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: You Want Me to Eat THIS? | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

Wood burning in the late '80s is no more sensible or righteous than mountain climbing. There was an old gent in my town, died a couple of years back, who split and stacked huge piles of wood well past his 80th birthday. He had plenty of money and an unused oil furnace, but wood splitting felt right to him, made sense. For a time, during the trendy days of wood stoves, he was a hero. After wood stoves lost their vogue and he continued to split firewood, he was thought mildly eccentric. Then he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Time To Split | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...poolside. But before that, he finished third . in the 200-meter freestyle, behind Australian Duncan Armstrong and Swede Anders Holmertz, and then was just touched out (and so thoroughly flummoxed that he was muttering shoulda-coulda three days later) in the 100-meter butterfly, 53.00 to 53.01, by a gent listed as "Anthony Nesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Splashes Of Class And Acts of Heroism | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

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