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...brand name. Mike's Murder, which stars Debra Winger as a bank teller lured into the paranoia of the cocaine underworld, is a skeleton in a super-closet: the picture was made in 1982 between Winger's two big hits, An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment, and was perpetrated by James Bridges, the writer-director whose previous films include The China Syndrome and Urban Cowboy. The pedigree of Mike's Murder matters not; this picture...
...testimony before a House subcommittee last week, Langhorne Motley, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, urged a "gentleman's agreement," possibly to classify and thus keep secret the requirements for continued aid. This would make it unnecessary for the Salvadoran government to submit to American demands in public. At a dinner in Peoria, Ill., Shultz argued that it is impractical for the U.S. simply to cut off aid to those governments that abuse human rights. Said Shultz: "This to me is a copout; it seems more concerned with making us feel better than with having an impact...
Amid all the praise for the nondrinking, nonsmoking Governor, a gentleman aboard from the Louisiana press decided that the cocktails all save Edwards were enjoying could use some sour grapes. He mentioned that the Governor had come close to being indicted several times. To this sort of talk, the Governor has answered, "People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors but I've never had brushes with...
with whom he composed the sexy syncopations of New York ! You on Mariel. It pleases him still to call himself "a tropical gentleman." and there is a neat kind of hipster fitness to the description. Although he makes periodic pilgrimages to Miami for sunshine and real Cuban black beans, he has himself brought more than a measure of musical heat to his own chilly adopted city, and to a very cool scene. -By Jay Cocks. Reported by Mary Ann French/New York
...Porter had written the classic "list" song, Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love with its chromatic descent and brilliant cascade of double-entendres: "The most refined lady bugs do it,/ When a gentleman calls,/ Moths in your rugs do it,/ What's the use of moth balls?" For a subsequent show he wrote You Do Something to Me. Its echoing rhymes ("Do do that voodoo that you do so well") were to become a Porter hallmark. But they also betrayed a lifelong preference for facility over feeling...