Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dinner, Paolillo told a joke about a Black man and a woman who went to the woman's apartment, according to last Thursday's Cambridge Chronicle. Paolillo then related that the woman removed her clothes and told the man to "do what he did best" or "let's see what you can do," the Chronicle reported...
...sportswear, watches, collector's plates and home furnishings. The marketing of the mystique seems perfectly natural in the case of a man who once declared, "Good business is the best art." Nonetheless, last week's inflated auction prices were "queasy making," as Cavett put it. "Some sort of sick joke was afoot. Maybe Andy was the only person who would have gotten...
...didn't have to explain the joke...
...first act, the characters are members of a supposedly repressed 1880s British family in colonial Africa. The Big Joke, I suppose, is the shameless promiscuity behind the family's stiff-upper-lip facade. So what? Imperialist Victorians aren't exactly a daring target for satire. They are no harder to make fun of than, say, 1980s yuppies...
...again in Stakeout ($66 million) and Tin Men ($26 million). Robin Williams, who had made two bombs at other studios, hit big with Good Morning, Vietnam. Says he: "Jeffrey ((Katzenberg)) picks people in neutral, stalled between phases, and tries to find the right vehicle for them. There's a joke going around that he hangs out outside the Betty Ford Center." But besides recruiting the down-and-out, Katzenberg lures established stars by offering them Hollywood's big opportunity: to direct or help produce their own pictures. Earlier this month, Disney signed TV Funnyman David Letterman to a multipicture contract...