Word: heavenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprisingly, each stumbled at times: Reagan by pulling his punches at the end and weakly blaming Soviet human-rights violations on "bureaucracy" rather than the Communist system or (heaven forbid!) his host; Gorbachev by taking now and then an almost contemptuous attitude toward Reagan. But like the seasoned troupers they are, they generally brought off their assignments with a surefooted panache...
...life in a Plaza bathroom ("Cute little soaps in the shape of swans! Could you die!"). Tomlin plays the Roses, but Midler is a fistful of Daisys: Miller, Buchanan and Mae. She is more than High Concept. As a movie star, even in this efficient little comedy, Bette is heaven in high heels...
...torture, the tear gas, the murders of schoolchildren that Sarafina! depicts, and for all the agony of apartheid that its players have experienced, America, in its midtown-Manhattan incarnation, seems far from utopian. "Before I came, I thought the U.S. would be like a small heaven," said Thandani Mavimbela of Hlabisa, a rural village in Natal province. "I thought it would be like on TV -- The Boat of Love. Love Boat? Or Dallas. But then you see places like Harlem. I was shocked. The empty, burned buildings. On Broadway, very poor people sleeping on the street. In South Africa, when...
...what Dorothy calls "some old disreputable-looking pants and shirt" and watches the evening news. Often he tunes in Dan Rather, though he urged conservatives a couple of years ago to buy up CBS, which he sees as a citadel of liberalism. His favorite program is Highway to Heaven, about an angel come to earth. "Very inspirational," says Helms, "and you don't see people falling in and out of bed to make a point...
...being taken over? No way, but the ( financially troubled TV studio that created him, Lorimar-Telepictures, may soon accept that fate. Lorimar, which produces Dallas and Knots Landing, has stumbled badly after expanding too fast into areas beyond its ken, including feature films (among its flops: Made in Heaven and American Anthem). Last week the company agreed to a friendly acquisition by Warner Communications, whose TV studio already produces such hits as Night Court and Growing Pains, for $630 million in stock and the assumption of $550 million of Lorimar's debt. But late in the week came word...