Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...according to insiders, began in 1983, when Wyman replaced Paley as chairman. Though Paley publicly treated the transition as a natural passing of the baton, in private he resented the move. The CBS founder had always taken an active role in network programming -- hiring away top NBC stars like Jack Benny and Edgar Bergen in the 1940s, advocating such high-quality shows as All in the Family and M*A*S*H in the 1970s. Now he was being forced to the sidelines...
...book is not so stirring an achievement as to be inevitable, but it is cheerful and funny, and no effort should be made to avoid it. Charley, of course, is the hero of Prizzi's Honor, the 1982 Condon novel that Director John Huston turned into one of Jack Nicholson's better films. There Charley was seen at mid-life, and his crisis was that his wife (Kathleen Turner in the film) turned out to be not only a Mob hit woman but a boodler who tried to grab some Mafia loot. Wistfully but dutifully, Charley killed her, after...
...stars are always out in the Los Angeles firmament, but last week it was political, not professional pull that ruled who was in what constellation. Giving her first public singing performance in six years, Barbra Streisand opened her Malibu ranch to the wallets of Jack Nicholson, Bette Midler, Jane Fonda and some 500 others who shelled out an astronomical $2,500 apiece for veal from Spago (very haute) and a backyard concert (very hot). Organized by the Hollywood Women's Political Committee to support six Democratic senatorial candidates, the affair was taped by HBO. Streisand crooned old favorites (People...
Crusading professionals are out in force on TV screens again this fall, but most seem untouched by the winds of change. CBS's Kay O'Brien, about a female surgeon, is Dr. Kildare crossed with Cagney & Lacey. In ABC's Jack and Mike, a newspaper columnist rushes to help folks in trouble while trying to keep her marriage afloat, a yuppie update of Hart to Hart. In CBS's Downtown, a tough cop gets crime-fighting help from four oddball parolees, a sort of B-Team. In addition to the routine fare, however, Bochco and Mann are introducing second- generation...
...Maryland's new Tournament Players Club at Avenel, in the company of old comrades the likes of Gary Player, with a five-iron to the 187-yd. third hole, Palmer corked, uncorked and recorked this vintage year that saw Jack Nicklaus, Raymond Floyd and Bob Murphy win the Masters, the U.S. Open and the Canadian Open...