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Word: liza (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...August and in the films Hustle and Sharkey's Machine. In Rent-a-Cop, he is Church, a good detective in bad odor because of a fatally botched drug bust. There's a psychopath (James Remar, all hollow-eyed menace) on the loose, and only a chatty tart (Liza Minnelli) to lead Church to the killer. While Minnelli wears earrings the size of headlights and puts way too much spin on every line of dialogue, Reynolds relaxes into his role. He has become the Perry Como of action-movie stars, never wasting a motion or spending emotion. As written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nights of The Falling Stars | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...SWEETEST SCENTS The perfumes peddled by those lovely hucksters: Elizabeth Taylor (Passion), Liza Minnelli (Metropolis), Sophia Loren (Sophia), Catherine Deneuve (Deneuve) and Dionne Warwick (Dionne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Most of '87 | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

...time the fact that a sanatorium for alcoholics had been started by a former First Lady who openly admitted to a drinking problem signaled that a hopeful change was in the air. Since then, a stream of recovering alcoholics, among them such celebrities as Elizabeth Taylor, Jason Robards and Liza Minnelli, have stepped forward to tell their stories with bracing candor -- of being caught in the vortex of alcoholism, of taking the strenuous route to sobriety offered in therapy and of regaining their health and self-respect. The long process of recovering from alcohol abuse, which experts insist never ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Out in the Open | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...turning out big pictures can be child's play. Los Angeles-based Metromedia Technologies uses computers to convert photos or other artwork into billboards up to 17 ft. by 54 ft. within just six hours. Another company, Torrance-based Computer Image Systems, is creating a 41-ft. portrait of Liza Minnelli that will rise this week over New York's Palace Theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Putting Byte Into Billboards | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

Last week Feinstein finished an SRO engagement at the Plush Room in San Francisco's York Hotel; on May 5 he will open at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington. In the fall he will tour Europe with Liza Minnelli, who is, aside from his mother Mazie, perhaps his biggest fan of all. "We're joined at the hip," says Minnelli. "Michael has real affection for the material. He's romantic in a way that so few people are nowadays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Wanna Sing a Show Tune . . . | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

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