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...most part, the evening belonged to Amadeus, the fictionalized account of the last years of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It won eight awards in all, including those for Best Picture, Best Director (Milos Forman), Best Actor (F. Murray Abraham for his role as Salieri, Mozart's nemesis) and Best Screenplay Adaptation (to Peter Shaffer, who rewrote his hit play). Tom Hulce, 31, also received a Best Actor nomination for his all-American, Huckleberry Finn interpretation of Mozart. Though he was not honored, Jeffrey Jones, 38, deserves a crown of his own for his portrayal of the blandly arrogant Emperor Joseph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Eight Cheers for the Music Man | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...ARTICLE was by Nick Wurf, a Harvard sophomore, who wrote his impressions of Duluth and Bulldogmania. They were, well, say, uncomplimentary, the work of a junior Jim Murray, a noted columnist who has taken on larger cities than Duluth and bigger teams than the Bulldogs...

Author: By Bruce Bennett, | Title: 'Dogmania | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...films with the help of two ingratiating stars. Cybill Shepherd as Maddie not only looks wonderful but proves to be an assured and ; appealing light comedian. As her partner in crime solving, Bruce Willis is more than her match. With his thick-necked macho charm, Willis brings a Bill Murray-esque tone of put-on to the witty patter. The show's dialogue is possibly the fastest on TV, the stories are briskly paced and unobtrusive, and Shepherd gets lots of loving close-ups. Moonlighting is a snazzy entry that deserves a full-time job on ABC next fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Spring Sparring Partners | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...University of Utah in Salt Lake City, asking him to join the rescue effort. Olsen was a member of the team that first tested the Jarvik-7 heart, which sustained Barney Clark for 112 days and was, at week's end, still beating in William Schroeder and Murray Haydon at the Humana Hospital in Louisville. Although Olsen was well aware that famed Surgeon William DeVries is the only doctor authorized by the FDA to implant the Jarvik-7, he agreed to fly to Tucson with the device. Said he: "In critical situations like this, we have to respond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Bold Gamble in Tucson | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

Rice's plot revolves around the competition between an American grand master (sung by Murray Head) and a Russian (Tommy Korberg) for the chess title and for the loyalty of the Hungarian-born Florence (Paige), who is first the American's adviser and then the Russian's lover after he defects to the West. Indeed, the show could be called Defects, referring not just to the shifting of allegiances but to the rancorous imperfections to which every affair is vulnerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Hit Show for the Record | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

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