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Director John Carpenter (Halloween, Starman) propels things faster, and way smoother, than a speeding '40s serial. But Co-Screenwriter W.D. Richter, who directed the definitive smarty-pants action picture, Buckaroo Banzai, is the evil genius behind Little China. He has everybody talking as if time-warped in some poverty-row thriller. "My destiny rests in your capable hands," the engaging Dun tells Russell, who is trying to be Harrison Ford trying to be John Wayne trying to be the Surly American. Everything else in the film is at the same three removes from reality. Little China offers dollops of entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Everything New Is Old Again | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

That was almost 17 years ago, Halloween Day, 1969. My attacker was some poor idiot tripping on LSD and the spirit of the holiday, and my savior was my mother. I only mention this incident because of the comment I made a few minutes and several blocks later, when my mother caught me trying to crawl into a police...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Square Ordeal | 4/23/1986 | See Source »

...There is the Adams House Raft Race, which beginning this year will be co-sponsored by the Undergraduate Council. Also, each fall the house has an interesting Halloween dance, and every spring we have a traditional waltz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Getting to Know Your House | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...city council members are homosexual, as are a third of the city's residents, opening West Hollywood to frequent jokes in Johnny Carson's monologue. Most recently the council took heat for voting to keep city hall open on Christmas while declining to meet on the evening of Halloween, which in West Hollywood is celebrated with outrageous costumes, street festivals and debauchery comparable to Rio's carnival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Hollywood: Exotic Mix | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

Families with children, the mainstay of most communities, are a distinct minority in West Hollywood, constituting only 5% of the populace. The local International House of Pancakes does far more business during Halloween and the Gay Pride Parade in June than on Mother's Day. "In West Hollywood we don't have children's specialty shops or McDonald's with a playground," says Ruth Abrams, 36, whose daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Hollywood: Exotic Mix | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

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