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...night, she becomes a self-professed "maniac" as she jumps onstage with her guitar...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Making Folk Music With a Hard Edge | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...director of low-budget slasher movies who is high on Harry's list of suspects in a serial-killer case, corners the market in upscale cynicism. James Carrey gets to go fruitfully bananas as a rock star on the mainline to an early grave. And David Hunt, as a maniac film fancier named Harlan, provides the jolt of menace. Hunt can even terrify a film critic before slicing her to shreds -- the ultimate negative review. No such fun for Clint; he mainly stands there and simmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Harry Sundown THE DEAD POOL | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

What was the catch? Did he want someone to play a rapist, a child molester or a drooling maniac? No. Those would have been easy parts to fill. Wheeler wanted a rugged star to play a college track coach who happens to be gay. And despite all the gains made by homosexuals in the U.S. in recent years, playing the part of a gay is still considered by many to be a fast ride to oblivion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Reluctance to Play | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...about 'old women.' So you see what the attitude was and how she had to fight." Isolde Motley, who was wooed from an editorship at Arts & Antiques and then fired before she even started working, nonetheless remains sympathetic. "I never met an entrepreneurial publisher who wasn't an egocentric maniac," Motley says. "She has a lot of guts and a great sense of mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Guru for Women over 40: Frances Lear | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

Pierre (Pete) du Pont Maniac. This guy is just wasting his time. The Republican Party has many stong candidates and he is not one of them. Need I say anymore...

Author: By Brendan Barnicle, | Title: A Word to the Wise, Advice to the Ailing | 2/18/1988 | See Source »

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