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She is also very gifted. For Carnelle Scott, the orphan and reformed town tart whom she plays, is a daffy simpleton. Seeking redemption and identity by becoming Miss Firecracker at her Mississippi home town's annual Fourth of July celebration, she could easily become shrill in her eccentric quest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Jagged Flashes of Inspiration | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

"It gets worse as it gets better," Belushi once told a friend in the summer of 1980, two years after Animal House, in which he played the definitive slob frat boy, had become one of the top-grossing movie comedies of all time. It is impossible not to care a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Overdosing on Bad Dreams | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

Ethel Kennedy had eleven children to raise. She did what she could with David and with Bobby. But something in the vigorous family ethic that had driven the second generation now came unhinged in at least part of the third. Bobby Kennedy's assassination may have shaken down the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The One Caught in the Undertow | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

From three gifted playwrights, the topics and blessings are mixed

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Genius, Menace and Chicanery | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

Well, why not? There is a lot of male invisibility going around these days. How should an out-of-date hero spend his time? Must idealism always be corrosive, as well as ennobling? Jessie does not know, but she is busy with the children. Can Carll see any glimmers of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Invisible Men | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

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