Word: howler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Insiders uses a rock score to enliven the weekly adventures of a hip free-lance reporter and his partner who go undercover for stories. The apparent model, again, is Miami Vice, but the show looks more like an '85 version of The Mod Squad. The season's biggest howler is Hollywood Beat, another Miami Vice-influenced show about a pair of undercover cops who patrol seedy Hollywood Boulevard. Creator Aaron Spelling's vision of Hollywood's "raw underbelly" features a ludicrous gallery of street folk (good-hearted prostitutes, a "cute" bag lady and a caped wacko called Captain Crusader...
...study of juvenile delinquency in Japan and an investigation of the behavior of the brown howler monkey are among the 21 undergraduate academic projects named yesterday as the first winners of the $1500 Hoopes prize...
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan just might salvage what remained of the jungle lord's reputation after John and Bo Derek turned Tarzan into a howler in 1981. This time out, when Tarzan, played by Newcomer Christopher Lambert, 25, discovers that he is the Earl of Greystoke, he doffs his loincloth and hightails it to England. When his adoptive dad Silverbeard also turns up ... Oh heck, Tarzan is a howler no matter how you cut it. At least this version puts him in some decent clothes...
...Rick Baker are authentic stars of many new movies. In recent months Hollywood's new wizards of goo and gadgetry have shown their skills in such diverse films as Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Elephant Man, Raging Bull, Altered States, The Incredible Shrinking Woman and that howler, The Howling. "There have been half a dozen films in which makeup was vital," says Dick Smith, 59, who is dean of the trade. "The same certainly cannot be said for costuming, sound or design...