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...released early next year, nobody is squealing -- certainly not the actors, who have yet to film or even see the script finale. Says Warren: "It's all very suspicious. No one knows what anyone else is up to." Everyone is nonetheless promising a rollicking comedy thriller packed with mirth and mayhem. If not, it's the producers in the toilet with the bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 3, 1985 | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...grows up in Queens, N.Y., thinks he's funny, but cannot see how to turn his mirth into money. Young man gets a degree in communications, then a graduate degree in language theory, but cannot make heads or tails of what he's up to. "There is never any resolution in this," he says to himself. "You come in and argue theories, social sciences, and the next week you come in and argue all over again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Learning to Laugh | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...show progresses--familiar songs all along, cliches and stereotypes rarely surmounted--the "chamber musical" conception offers us something akin to the one-night stands it so shamelessly portrays. Fun, entertainment, mirth: we get all of this, but nothing more. We know our lovers want their dessert, we suspect some fulfillment of those desires, but is that...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Quintessential Cole | 10/9/1984 | See Source »

...high level economic luncheon that was going on at the time. When a reporter noted that Feldstein was in fact in attendance, Speakes gallantly sent an aide to find out why. When the aide returned, Speakes read his note silently, mouthing the words "last supper" to the general mirth of those in attendance. Reporters then asked Speakes to read would the contents of the note--the Secretary refused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freedom of Speakes | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...fastidious person in the throes of love is a rich source of mirth. Tibba spends a weekend with her boisterous aunt and uncle and promptly falls for a rich, spoiled youth, whose brazen mother pushes her way at once into the Islington redoubt. Giles is swept into Louise's ample embrace and hauled off to a humiliating weekend in Cambridge, the place where he failed to get tenure years before and where her thesis was summarily rejected more recently. As their lives get messier, father and daughter start to turn on each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love's Fools | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

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