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...sprockets in 2½ hours, Columbia Pictures Mogul Harry Cohn announced that "I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good." To which Screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz cracked, "Imagine-the whole world wired to Harry Conn's ass!" Oddly enough, Cohn deserves the last laugh; more than a few current films could benefit from his circuitry. On the whole, today's movies are longer but not richer. Their story lines are no more complicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Why Do Movies Seem So Long? | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

Currenity Harvard Athletic Department officials are considering either hearing with security guards for shenexe Class, or distorting post dowaing an marketable Both choices are totally on the factory. The Athletic Department should show some common sense and respect spectator safety, and adopt this simple safety measure. Ron Herman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goalpost Security | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...Herman Veal and Adrian Branch sank two free throws each in the final minutes last night to lead number five Maryland to a 59-55, Atlantic Coast Conference basketball victory over 12th-rated North Carolina State...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 1/5/1984 | See Source »

...Cage aux Folies. The one megabit musical in a torpid Broadway season, Harvey Fierstein's gay valentine boasts a spectacular turn by George Hearn, as a Saint-Tropez drag queen, and surefire Jerry Herman songs that might have been composed on a calliope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: THE BEST OF 1983: Theater | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

Longest War: ABC's 18-hour The Winds of. . . brought Herman Wouk and a platoon of stars to prime time and proved that, with a $40 million budget and $35 million worth of on-air promotion, a mini-series can still snag record numbers of viewers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: THE MOST OF 1983 | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

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