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...with long fingernails that could rip your heart out, has hired him to find Johnny Favorite, who hit it big as a crooner before the war, then disappeared, body and soul, welshing on a commitment to Cyphre. The people who knew Favorite -- a junkie physician (Michael Higgins), a blues guitarist (Brownie McGhee), a society girlfriend (Charlotte Rampling) and her father (Stocker Fontelieu) -- share two annoying habits: they won't tell all they know, and they keep turning up dead, in circumstances that implicate Angel. Let's see now. Who was God's favorite angel? Wasn't it . . . Lou Cyphre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lucifer In Disguise with Diamonds ANGEL HEART | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...enemy is Mom (Gena Rowlands), who drives Patti bats with her meddling, consuming love. Patti seceded from the family when she had a son out of wedlock. "I wanted something she had no part of," Patti tells her brother Joe (Michael J. Fox). Joe, the Barbusters' lead guitarist, is peacemaker in the Rasnick war, but sometimes he feels like a hostage to both sides. And in this family, one of the warring parties will have to die for the other to surrender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Talkin' 'Bout My Generation LIGHT OF DAY | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...litterbugs that it is anti-Texan to trash. Aimed at "deliberate" litterers, 18-to-34-year-old men who are unmoved by threats or appeals to civic duty, the "Don't Mess" theme has struck a chord with Texans' sense of defiant pride during tough times. Celebrities such as Guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Fabulous Thunderbirds rock group have appeared in radio and TV spots, and the slogan is being proclaimed on bumper stickers, T shirts and even beer-can holders. Best of all, the campaign works: a research-agency survey found that after nine months, litter had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas: Real Men Don't Litter | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

PLEASURES OF THEIR COMPANY (Angel). A cozy recital by Soprano Kathleen Battle and Guitarist Christopher Parkening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Best of '86: Music | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...Balinese- influenced String Quartet No. 8 by the idiosyncratic Australian Peter Sculthorpe, the introspective Quartet No. 3 by conservative Finnish Composer Aulis Sallinen, Philip Glass's somber, eight-minute Company, the rarely heard 1942 String Quartet by expatriate American Conlon Nancarrow and, as an encore, an arrangement of Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze. Talk about eclectic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Once Upon a Time in America | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

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