Word: jerks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spielberg's 1941 is the surprise flop, Carl Reiner's The Jerk, starring Comedian Steve Martin, is the unexpected hit of the season. It cost approximately $10 million, including promotion, and so far has grossed $32 million, with as much success in small towns as in big cities. "People like Steve Martin, and it is a funny film," says Ron Goldman, a co-owner of the Washington, D.C.-based K.B. theater chain, expressing an opinion not shared by most of the critics. He adds: "Thank God the critics aren't quite as important as they used...
...UNITED STATES is at a crossroads in its foreign policy: it can either re-subscribe to the principles that brought two decades of cold war, Korea and Vietnam, or try something new. The old policies have brought nothing but failure; if, for once, the U.S. shuns a knee-jerk military response, it will both salvage its foreign policy goals and leave open a path to world peace...
...films, dashing French Movie Star Jean-Paul Belmondo customarily wins the girl. This time, however, the 46-year-old actor lost her to a younger man, and after she vanished had to console himself by dancing le jerk with someone else. The girl was dark-eyed Daughter Florence, 20, whom Belmondo gave away in traditional style as the beaming father of the bride. Florence's husband is American Public Relations Man Larry-Neal Andrews, 30. The couple will settle in Seattle, not one of Papa Jean-Paul's watering holes...