Word: murrayism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Into everybody's life someone like Bob Wiley (Bill Murray) is bound to fall. "Human Krazy Glue" is how Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfuss), the fallee in this hilarious case, describes him. For Bob is a classically needy nerd. Having no life of his own, Bob is desperate to attach himself to someone else's existence and draw psychic sustenance from it in great, draining gulps...
...Hollywood, dying is hard but comedy is easy. The original Saturday Night Live wires have frayed lately, but Bill Murray will open the season with this week's psycho farce, What About Bob? Billy Crystal will dude it up out West in City Slickers, Martin Short will bank on Pure Luck, and John Candy will go Delirious. The easiest hit to pick is a farce sequel, The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear...
Nearly 500 of the nation's top history professors responded to the Murray- Blessing update survey on presidential performance. They placed Reagan 28th on a list that includes 37 of the 40 U.S. Presidents. William Henry Harrison, who died after a month in office, and James Garfield, assassinated after six months, were not ranked. George Bush, still at work, is not eligible...
...rating of Presidents has been serious business since Harvard's Arthur Schlesinger Sr. made an informal tally among 50 colleagues in 1948. In 1981 Robert Murray (now retired) and Tim Blessing of Pennsylvania State University took up where Schlesinger left off. This week Blessing will walk bravely into a meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Louisville and deliver a paper on the new poll results. Reagan partisans will start to climb the walls...
...GIANTS (TNT, Mar. 17, 18, 8 p.m. EST). The life and times of Michelangelo (British newcomer Mark Frankel) are the subject of this lush- looking, silly-sounding four-hour mini-series, which also gives us the skinny on the "eccentric" Leonardo (John Glover -- who else?), Pope Julius II (F. Murray Abraham), Raphael and Savonarola. In short, your basic Italian Renaissance docudrams...