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Playing at number one, junior Roger Berry defeated Joe Lizardo in straight sets, 7-5, 7-6. Freshman Derek Brown had even fewer problems than Berry, dispatching Terry Godman...

Author: By Mia Kang, | Title: Netmen Play Ungracious Hosts to Temple, 7-2 | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...singles flight, Leschly fell to Temple's Joe Lizardo, 6-4, 6-3. He then dropped a straight setdecision to Cornell's Ian McDonald in a consolation match...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netmen Fare Well At ECAC Tourney | 10/4/1988 | See Source »

...ferocious battle of wits ensues. On one side: Buckaroo (Peter Weller) and the members of Team Banzai. On the other: Dr. Emilio Lizardo (John Lithgow), once a brilliant physicist, now the vilest, battiest extraterrestrial in all the genre. Meanwhile, the benevolent rulers of Planet 10 hover above New Jersey in a craft that looks like the Mollusk from Outer Space, dispensing wisdom and even more confusion. Where will it lead? Most likely to nuclear annihilation. Already the President of the U.S. is opening a dread, eyes-only packet that reads DECLARATION OF WAR: THE SHORT FORM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: It Came from Beyond Bananas | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...street-angel smile) and Jeff Goldblum (heartthrob of the Mensa sorority) clues Buckaroo Banzai as very chic scifi. Lithgow, the movies' Mr. Versatile (transsexual jock in The World According to Garp, bumbling lover in Terms of Endearment, incendiary preacher in Footloose), here does a manic turn as Dr. Lizardo; it is as if old mad Ezra Pound were played by Klaus Kinski. And Weller-his cobalt eyes borrowed from Paul Newman, his iron jaw from D.C. Comics-makes a stalwart Renaissance man for the atomic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: It Came from Beyond Bananas | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

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