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...invented the taste for mass-produced, disposable culture that we take for granted nowadays--a taste that even extends to our view of history. Where once the news media tried to place the news in a broad historical perspective, the closest they come today is producing specials on which Geraldo Rivera builds the public to a frenzy in anticipation of unlocking Al Capones' subletted crawlspace...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Carrying the Waite: | 3/7/1987 | See Source »

...authorize the purchase of 262 new police cars to help catch more criminals in the act. Some financial institutions now have as many as 100 armed guards on the payroll. Bank lobbies feature turret-like booths with small slots for keeping rifles trained on potential thieves. According to Geraldo Vidigal, a lawyer for the Federation of Brazilian Bank Associations, these armored guardhouses initially provided "a certain psychological deterrent," but ultimately proved useless. Once a robbery is under way, says Roberto Salgado, director of the Brazilian Association of Guard and Security Companies, "most banks instruct the guards not to shoot where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Heist Fever | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

...running joke in the film is little Geraldo's inability to pee in front of other people, and such details help make the characters more realistic. While our insight into their personalities isn't always clear, we can still get a general feeling for their relationships. In an early scene. Ivan tells one of the girls to act her age and, in one of the film's best lines, she snaps. "How the hell do you act 11?" And of course, through a nasty remark like that, she demonstrates exactly how an 11-year-old acts. The playwright, Ivan, copes...

Author: By Lewis J. Desimone, | Title: Family Fare | 7/6/1982 | See Source »

MARRIED. Pat Benatar, 29, Grammy Award-winning best female rock singer (Fire and Ice); and Neil Geraldo, 30, her lead guitar player and co-producer of her last album, Precious Time; she for the second time, he for the first; in Maui, Hawaii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 8, 1982 | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...evidence, he cited ABC's coverage of the region since the murder of Sean Toolan, a part-time radio reporter for ABC in Beirut. He was killed shortly after ABC-TV aired a special report by Correspondent Geraldo Rivera that was sharply critical of Palestinian terrorism. Said Chafets: "ABC, from the time that [Toolan's death] happened, in my view, began a policy which I would describe as cowardly." The recent 20/20 segment "Under the Israeli Thumb" by Correspondent Tom Jarriel, Chafets said, was "one of the most malicious, distorted and one-sided programs about Israel shown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: News Gathering Under the Gun | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

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