Word: mull
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reconciling individual freedoms and Harvard's need to maintain order poses intimidating problems. But the faculty must do more than mull over those problems while hiding behind a repugnant pseudo-judiciary body like...
While there, he might also mull the phenomenal success of Wheel of Fortune. A fixture on NBC's morning schedule since 1975, Wheel was on the verge of cancellation in 1982, when a small distribution company named King World decided to create a night-time syndicated version. The show (now seen twice each weekday in most cities, in both network and syndicated editions) soon became a major hit, and this season generated $70 million in gross revenues. "If Wheel continues to hang in there," says King World Chairman Roger King, "it will do better business than Star Wars...
...maintain the game's conventions, in which players are invited to solve a mystery of the multiple-murders-in-a-mansion variety, that he allowed himself no time for dialogue or business that rises above the mechanical. Such good performers as Madeline Kahn, Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan and Martin Mull are driven breathless and charmless trying to keep up with the plot's inane demands. To amend a phrase: Who cares who killed Mr. Boddy...
...silly. You know that I have nothing to do with CLUE (Copley Place). I don't play board games, let alone make movies about them, let alone movies with three different endings, depending on the theater. Martin Mull does play a crafty Colonel Mustard, though, and gimmickry aside, even an English Spook like yourself might enjoy it. It's not easy taking a movie inspired by a board game seriously, but then I suppose you might have in your younger days...
...longtime Parker Brothers' best-selling board game. Never known to let a best seller get away, Hollywood has just begun filming a movie based on the game. The first clues fans will want, of course, are who plays the familiar players: Lesley Ann Warren (Miss Scarlett), Martin Mull (Colonel Mustard), Madeline Kahn (Mrs. White), Michael McKean (Mr. Green), Christopher Lloyd (Professor Plum) and Eileen Brennan (Mrs. Peacock). These six suspects are joined in the movie by six new characters led by Butler Tim Curry. The plot is said to contain enough hints for figuring out who did what where...