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...Stripes screenplay, by Len Blum, Dan Goldberg and Harold Ramis, was tailor-made for Murray, who plays the role of John Winger, a lazy, listless yet lovable failure. After losing his job, his car and his girlfriend in that order. Winger, along with his sidekick Russell Zisky (Ramis), decides to join the Army simply because he is too lazy to do anything else. The problems quickly (and predictably) begin when Winger--an incessant clown--meets up with the brass of the United States Military...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Ten-SHUN! | 7/3/1981 | See Source »

...spring, a middle-aged man's fancy ponderously turns to thoughts of airline hostesses. This despite the fact that Nick Callan (Len Cariou) is engaged in a less taxing rite of renewal-joining with his wife (Sandy Dennis) and their best friends the Zimmers (Jack Weston and Rita Moreno) and the Burroughses (Alan Alda and Carol Burnett) to open the latter's vacation house for the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Muddling Along in Middle Age | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

...Len Barker of the Cleveland Indians threw a perfect game against the Toronto Blue Jays, the first since 1968. For five points each, who pitched the '68 game, and what team did he beat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Baseball Trivia Quiz: Final Examination | 5/20/1981 | See Source »

...Len Deighton Knopf; 339 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable: Apr. 27, 1981 | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...Sound and the Führer are overfamiliar: an old Nazi project threatens to shake the contemporary world to its foundations. But Spy Master Len Deighton enlivens the pseudo history with some new turns, among them a face-to-face meeting between Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler. Time: 1940. Place: a Belgian bunker. Topic: the surrender of Britain. The Prime Minister, of course, refuses in the end. But so sensitive is the clandestine rendezvous-one of the terms discussed is Nazi control of Ireland-that even two generations later, anyone who learns of it is marked for XPD-Expedient Demise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable: Apr. 27, 1981 | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

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