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Price himself grew up in a lower-middle-class Jewish family in the projects in the era of black leather jackets and greaser hair. Today the kid from the Bronx is on a roll. Houghton Mifflin paid $500,000 for Clockers, and Universal Pictures is putting up $1.9 million for the film rights and a screenplay Price will write. Two more Price-scripted movies, Mad Dog and Glory and Night and the City, both starring Robert De Niro, are set for release this year. Earlier Price credits for The Color of Money and Sea of Love helped...
...JACKET TO DIE FOR. Descended from the "greaser" coats of the 1950s, these $800 leather items are only for the rich -- and the brave. Several luckless owners have lost their lives along with their coats in robberies...
...pair have had flops (Goodtime Girls, Joanie Loves Chachi) as well as hits. But they have gained a reputation in TV circles as expert fix-it men, skilled at tinkering with shows and playing up the elements that work. Their legendary success was boosting the role of Fonzie, the greaser with a heart of gold, in Happy Days. "Basically, the concept of a show is merely a vehicle to get it launched," says Boyett. "What keeps it going is the ability to present characters people want to follow...
...movie about Oklahoma teenagers (based on the S.E. $ Hinton novel) into a lyrical, lovingly crafted TV series. Class conflict is the theme: the three Curtis brothers, scraping along together after the death of their parents, are part of a wrong-side-of-the-tracks crowd known as the Greasers. Their snooty, letter-sweatered antagonists are called the Socs (that's So-shes). The show pushes its James Dean angst a bit hard ("What do I got? Nothin'! Just another greaser goin' nowhere"). But the milieu is sharply etched, and rarely have the disaffected been so affecting. The best drama series...
...baby-faced Christopher Reeve. Here he is, Superman in miniature (Reeve is 6 ft. 4 in., Cruise 5 ft. 9 in.): the hooded eyes, the sculpted body, the off-beat comic timing, the self-deprecating manner, the winning smile. Cruise played a psychotic cadet in Taps, a winsome greaser in The Outsiders, but it was in Paul Brickman's sleek and sexy summer comedy Risky Business that Cruise first turned on the wattage. Star power has translated into box-office dollars: in its first eleven weeks Risky Business earned $56 million, lying Cruise with Michael Keaton (of the equally...