Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John's Moore excelled in English and wasa prize pupil of Brother Santoro's acclaimed highschool company, which won statewide "mini-academyawards" in repeated drama festivals. As a kid herecalls loving disaster movies and wanting toactually "play the Towering Inferno," and hismother says he annually staged a backyard pick-upplay, the way other kids would organize astreet-wide round of touch football...
...title refers not to Castro's island but to an illiterate Hispanic drug dealer (De Niro) and his much cuddled, much cuffed adolescent son Teddy (Ralph Macchio, star of the movie The Karate Kid). Also on the scene are the father's oafish partner in crime (Burt Young, an Oscar nominee for Rocky) and assorted street-corner toughs, including a junkie playwright who has befriended and apparently seduced the boy, a would-be writer. For De Niro fans, the role of Cuba evokes what he does best in film: veering unnervingly between caressing affection and blind rage. Small wonder that...
...even Branch Rickey," Jackson says, "could have foreseen this kid was going to hit 15 home runs in his first 37 games in the big leagues (a 16th in the 38th was washed out last week). But I could see he had the tools." The way Jackson looks at it, the tools are the minimum. "A lot of players have superstar capability," he says, "but how many have superstar copability? Some can pull their weight, but few can pull the wagon." When he says Joyner might be special, Jackson means very special indeed...
...second-grade show-and-tell about a famous American (in which most of the boys dressed as George Washington and most of the girls as Florence Nightingale), showed up as Bessie Smith, in a big old dress and a perm like an Afro. "When I was a little kid," Molly says, "I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs...
...well, Hughes was both an overgrown kid, with spiky hair and high-top basketball shoes, and a big brother. He encouraged his bright young actors to improvise dialogue and make suggestions about the films' structures. Says Howard Deutch, who directed Hughes' screenplay of Pretty in Pink, "I've never seen a writer who is so willing to adapt his dialogue and script." (Thanks in part to urgings from his cast, a female-flesh scene was removed from The Breakfast Club.) Hughes took the youngsters to rock concerts, hosted cast dinners or simply made himself available to listen. But in this...