Word: hills
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Screenplay by Lukas Heller and Walter Hill...
...trendies are involved in this one. Brat-packsters Nelson and Ally Sheedy are stars, actors who in Bogart's day would be lucky to get a job in a department store window. Walter Hill, the workmanlike directorial panderer who gave us such hyped-up schlock as 48 HRS and Streets of Fire takes credit for co-producing and co-writing, while Sixteen Candles and Breakfast Club leftover Michelle Manning directed...
...raped. Then, on March 6, Aretha Clements, 60, was discovered by her son: she had been strangled, raped and robbed. On March 11, Dena Mae Mike, 62, blind and living only a mile away from the others, became the third victim. By the time the body of Grace Hill, 68, was discovered on April 9, the police had already formed a task force to investigate the similarities in the murders. "We have to be sensitive after what we went through," says Major B.L. Neikirk, the head of the task force, who was deeply involved in the 1979-81 investigations...
...Capitol Hill, the latest lapel button bears the query WHERE'S THE BUDGET? The short answer is: Nowhere. Last week Congress missed the April 15 deadline for passing a budget resolution for fiscal 1987. While President Reagan refused to compromise on the unpopular budget he proposed last February, Congress continued squabbling over the mix of domestic and military spending and whether to raise taxes, ignoring the timetable, set by the Gramm-Rudman Act, which it considered so urgent last year. Shrugged House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "We miss all kinds of deadlines around here...
...appeal is important, Fox said, aside from the question of vindication because Lakian has another lawsuit pending against the Globe on behalf of his Fort Hill investment company, which Lakian claims was damaged by the article. If he prevails in the personal libel case, Lakian would be in a stronger position to collect substantial damages in the Fort Hill case...