Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scott Bartlett from San Francisco and Hoofer Gene Kelly from the heart of Hollywood. He put three films into production on the Zoetrope lot: Hammett, a surreal murder mystery directed by the German Wim Wenders; The Escape Artist, starring Ryan O'Neal's 16-year-old son Griffin; and One from the Heart. By January, Zoetrope had some 500 employees and a $600,000-a-week payroll. Inevitably, Coppola's Olympian disregard for the bottom line led to deep financial trou ble. Last spring, Hammett, which had endured a dozen rewrites on its way to filming...
...ablest men I have ever met. He's diplomatic. He's skillful. He's fair." Carter paid a similar compliment last week in awarding Christopher the Medal of Freedom: "He is indeed outstanding." Privately, Carter added that he regrets not having named Christopher to succeed Griffin Bell as Attorney General...
...button that proclaimed WE'RE NO. 1, the Carters stopped off at Atlanta to pick up some 20 old friends and guests for the game, including Georgia Governor George Busbee, former Budget Director Bert Lance, Lawyer Charles Kirbo, Sportsman and Communications Magnate Ted Turner and former Attorney General Griffin Bell. It was a happy day: Carter's team...
...first view, Lonnie Wayne Burke (Griffin Dunne) is a criminal street urchin who almost seems afraid of his $2 handgun. A scruffy pressagent, Manny Alter, played with drooling opportunism by Larry Block, sees the chance to turn Lonnie into a lethal hot property. Decking the punk in a skeleton suit and dubbing him "the Halloween Killer," Manny starts Lonnie on the garish glory road to 27 murders. The tabloids swiftly pick up the scent (THE HALLOWEEN KILLER STALKS JACKIE O.). Smarmy talk-show hosts fawn on him, paperback offers and film rights proliferate, and Lonnie makes big bad bawdy whoopee...
...Aussie I have always admired the layout of our capital city, Canberra, which was designed by an American architect named Walter Burley Griffin in a worldwide competition in 1912. Then, two years ago, I visited Washington, D.C., designed by France's Pierre L'Enfant, and saw perfection in beauty, layout, transport, lakes and monuments [Nov. 10]. In 1979 I traveled to Paris and realized that Washington has the edge on them...