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...real role affected the whole city as I knew it." It remains for Hollywood to put more real black faces on the nation's screens, and for black actors to keep fighting to show their faces. As the tough sergeant growls in A Soldier's Story, "Not havin' is no excuse for not getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blues for Black Actors | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...Caesar's Palace. The writers reach the lowest depths of their lyrical abyss with "Feelin' Good," a number that sounds like it was lifted from some bastardized Porgy and Bess. In a semicomatose performance, Adam Finkel as The Hobo sings "Dragonfly out in the sun/You know what I mean/Butterflies havin' fun/You know what I mean...It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Working-Class Pleasantries | 11/11/1980 | See Source »

Quick now: Who wears $700 white suits, balloons on his head, an arrow through his skull, rabbit ears and a rubber nose and is forever afflicted by uncontrollably buck-and-winging "happy feet"? "Hey, we're havin' sommmme fuuun," he chortles. Pregnant pause. "Hey, this guy is really... crazy! By now, any halfway clued-in cultist should recognize silver-haired Steve Martin, 32, a Dadaesque philosopher turned goofball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Comedians | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

Well I gotta be goin' now, got big things to do if ya catch my drift. But I'll tell ya one more thing, and don't ya tell no one ya spoke to me or nuthin', but ya can be sure that ol' Joe is havin' a mighty nice little chuckle to himself this week...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: "Hey, Ya Know..." | 10/19/1977 | See Source »

...royalties, Nelson left Nashville in 1972 when his house burned down and he retreated to a ranch on the edge of Austin. Says he: "The University of Texas was there, and I had an idea that the young people was really goin' to like country music. They were havin' a rough time findin' it sometimes; they were afraid to go to some of the places where hippies might not be welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In the Heart of Honky-Tonk Rock | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

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