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...camera, the surprise of lighting, the big crazy fire at the climax. As a sympathetic director of women (who could ever forget Adrian's birth scene in Rocky II?) you might be appalled by Bertrand Blier's Tenue de Soiree, a raucous romantic farce in which Macho Thief Gerard Depardieu gets the raging hots for Winsome Wimp Michel Blanc, and they both end up in drag. Still, the film is so ingenuous and vigorous that even an ardent feminist like yourself might surrender to its skewed charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Celebration of Reel Life | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...originals have taken the opposite position. Alexander Woollcott, twitted unmercifully by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart as The Man Who Came to Dinner, played the title role onstage. Gerard Fairlie, who inspired Sapper's stolid Bulldog Drummond, went on to write seven further novels about himself after the death of the detective's creator. Still, most of those who find themselves appearing under other names have a tendency to seethe. The reason for their umbrage frequently has less to do with egos than with wallets. The model for the romantic doctor in W. Somerset Maugham's story The Happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inspirations the Originals | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

Evelyn Murphy, a former State Secretary of Economic affairs, and State Sen. Gerard D'Amico (D-Worcester) are the two major contenders for this nomination. They both apparently have sufficient support to gain at least the 15 percent of delegates' votes that will put their names on the September 16 primary ticket...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Democrats Prepare For State Party Convention | 5/16/1986 | See Source »

...Chernobyl disaster simply as a political embarassment to the Soviet government, rather than as a human tragedy, is repugnant. Whatever one's opinion of the Soviet government, it is incumbent upon us to sympathize with the Russian and Ukrainian peoples in a time of difficulty. Rama Kocherlakota GSAS Gerard Michael GSAS John March-Russell GSAS Noel Harold Kaylor GSAS Kathleen Gallo GSAS

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tasteless | 5/16/1986 | See Source »

OPERATIONS DIRECTOR: Gerard C. Lelievre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead May 12, 1986 Vol. 127 No. 19 | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

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