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...Munchkins are street kids who were imprisoned in a wall of graffiti. The Wicked Witch of the West runs a sweatshop. The Cowardly Lion is one of the two statues that guard the front of the New York Public Library. The Emerald City is the World Trade Center, and Director Sidney Lumet has staged extravagant dances at the towers' base. The sunken plaza was covered over with Plexiglas, and 300 dancers, lit by spotlights from below, pound away on top. Lumet wanted to turn the Brooklyn Bridge into the Yellow Brick Road by putting down 25 miles of yellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Yellow Brick Road to Profit | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...sitz baths after she had reported seeing Oswald and Ruby together in Michigan (neither was ever in the state). The bureau spent weeks trying to trace a bad check Oswald was supposed to have cashed in a bar in Pflugerville, Texas, and months tracking the origins of graffiti discovered in a boxcar reading LEE OSWALD-FUTURE MAN OF DESTINY, APRIL 4, 1963 (it turned out a railway workman had scribbled the words as a post-assassination prank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The FBI Story on J.F.K.'s Death | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...youth market. The first film to exploit the latest disco craze, it stars a hot TV personality, John Travolta, and features a sound track overcrowded with highly pluggable Bee Gees songs. The sets are plastered with posters of Al Pacino and Farrah Fawcett-Majors; the script shamelessly ransacks American Graffiti and Rocky. The people behind Saturday Night Fever -or perhaps one should say the accountants-have not left much to chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Discomania | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...clerk at a Los Angeles hospital. Carefully mapping out his life, the Cassius side of Dreyfuss planned on ten years of acting apprenticeship. But before he could get started, he says, in a voice that wavers somewhere between woe and wonder, "the movies happened-boom! boom! boom!" American Graffiti led to The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, which led to Jaws-which led to the beginning of a breakdown. The movie was just a big fish story, says Dreyfuss, and he "felt like a whore" acting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hollywood's Flying Object | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...roles, top billing and top dollar in Hollywood, but it has always been hard to accept him as a top movie actor. Though his brash energy holds the screen, Dreyfuss has built most of his characters from a single emotion-an intense comic anguish. At his best-in American Graffiti, Duddy Kravitz and Close Encounters-he can be ruefully witty and vulnerable. His jittery neuroticism keeps an audience guessing whether he might really fall apart. But there is also a persistent feeling that he is hiding behind a pat routine. When Dreyfuss portrays the same boyish insecurities in role after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Wising Up | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

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