Word: martin
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...Some papers were destroyed in the routine processing of old files," explained Harvard's Deputy General Counsel Martin Michaelson, who characterized the problem as an "administrative slip...
During reading and exam periods, January 5-31, The Crimson will publish three times per week, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, except for Monday, January 19, which is Martin Luther King Day. The Crimson will not publish during intercession , February 1-3, but will resume its regular daily schedule on Wednesday, February...
Seymour Krelborn (Rick Moranis) is a skid row nerd, languishing in Mushnik's Flower Shop. He loves the tramp goddess Audrey (Ellen Greene), but she too willingly suffers the bondage and discipline of the notorious Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. (Steve Martin). Not until Seymour strikes a Faustian bargain with a talking plant he calls Audrey II does our hero find the girl of his dreams. And the killer vegetation of his most festering nightmares...
...movie sneaks up on you, about as subtly as Audrey II. The songs are neat pastiches of '60s pop. The plant is an animatronic wonder, all blue gums, naughty tendrils and mighty mouth. Moranis and Greene make for a comely-homely pair of thwarted lovers, and Martin is his hilarious self, libeling all dentists who had just managed to forget Marathon Man. Then Bill Murray shows up as the perfect dental patient, sublime masochist to Martin's cheerful sadist, and strolls away with ; the picture. Little Shop never quite recovers its bearings; the viewer may not either. Death by laughter...
Mancuso has painful memories to bolster his caution. He became Paramount chairman after the departure in 1984 of tough, abrasive Barry Diller, 44, who suddenly skipped over to become head of 20th Century-Fox. The reason for Diller's departure: differences over management style with Gulf & Western CEO Martin Davis. Diller was followed out the door by Paramount President Michael Eisner, 44, who accepted an offer to become chairman of Disney. A number of senior Paramount production executives departed in the duo's wake. Recalls Ned Tanen, 55, currently head of Paramount's motion-picture group: "Frank (Mancuso...