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...ANGELES: Life in the 'Hood...
...Thomas M. Lauderdale does everything. Thomas--everyone calls him Thomas--is wearing hiked-up khakis (so comfortable), a cream-colored print tie decorated with nuclear radiation symbols (too cool) and a woman's fire-engine red felt jacked (isn't it marvelous?) Little Lord Fauntleroy meets Little Red Riding Hood. His accessories for the day include a plastic Jetsons wristwatch, a pink fluorescent pen and, of course, his sleek mud-brown cigarettes. "It's all about accessories," Thomas insists. Definitely put that in your article...
...think there's a different climate now. People want things fixed. They want a guy to get under the hood of the car and fix the engine. I think they're finally ready for somebody who will go in and fix things as opposed to let things deteriorate while he goes around and holds news conferences and two-day summits on various social programs and domestic issues. They want it done. Now, that's up to them...
...season of movie- and TV-star glitter -- Jessica Lange, Alec Baldwin and Amy Madigan in A Streetcar Named Desire; Glenn Close, Gene Hackman and Richard Dreyfuss in Ariel Dorfman's politically inflamed Death and the Maiden; fast-rising Larry Fishburne, direct from the angry film Boyz N the Hood to Wilson's wistful Two Trains Running; Judd Hirsch; Alan Alda; Jane Alexander; Raul Julia; Gregory Hines. It has been a season of bountiful musicals -- Crazy for You for Gershwin nostalgia, Jelly's Last Jam for show-business angst and racial relevance, Falsettos for AIDS poignancy and artistic perfection...
...Moviegoers are tired of action-adventure movies. No, studio bosses are tired of making them. Macho mayhem still turns the wickets: Terminator 2 and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves were last year's top money winners. The summer before, five actioners (Total Recall, Another 48 Hours, Dick Tracy, Days of Thunder and Die Hard 2) opened in five weeks -- overloading even a male teenager's adrenaline system, it was thought -- and pulled in an average of $100 million. People will pay to see them, but studios don't want to pay the huge freight: $60 million or more, plus mammoth...