Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mick, Keith, Charlie, Bill, and Ron, then, must have gotten a laugh out of the latest attempt to mythologize the Rolling Stones, this one offered by veteran New York Times cliche-hurler Robert Palmer. This picture-book, large-type text, liberally prepared with color and black-and-white photos of the Stones at their decadent best, suffers from the same '60s-envy that makes otherwise rational human beings mythologize the pompous and overblown Jim Morrison or believe that the Grateful Dead were ever more than a bunch of dope fiends who knew a few chord changes...
...polo-player insignia. Gottlieb's Horse Shirt shows the rider being dragged behind the horse. Lauren sued, and Gottlieb has again promised to halt sales. Said he last week: "I was only poking a little satiric fun at the whole preppie movement. Everyone should be able to laugh." But not, in Gottlieb's case, on the way to the bank: he has now lost two of the three items his firm produces. The only one left is Silent Vigil foam-rubber wind chimes, introduced two months ago "for those who love the look but hate the sound." Silent...
...other times, it was a case of bizarrely mixed signals. While there was no doubt that Suzy was kidding, there was also no doubt that Jeff, who was considerably smaller than her, was legitimately afraid when she attacked him. "Suzy almost raped Jeffy twice," Gary recalls with a laugh. "Once she had him pinned and started taking off his shirt, and he came running up to our room for shelter." His fear would prove warranted late in the year when she accidentally broke...
...balance, making them wonder if he was joking at all, as in his shoving match with a TV producer and actors on a live broadcast of ABC's Friday's in 1981. "I just want real reactions," said Kaufman in explaining his comedy. "I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut-or get angry from...
...than the scripts of her 39 movies, but that was not always enough to make a performance memorable. Then came Terms of Endearment. Aurora Greenway was the part of a lifetime, and also a trap. Says MacLaine: "Aurora was an impossible, demanding, smothering, self-indulgent woman who made me laugh a lot. I adored her directness, her lack of self-censorship and her capacity to grow...