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...Georgias." Jordan, affecting a down-home and folksy style, is popular in the rural areas and farm towns, which still have more than half the state's Democratic primary voters. Standing on the deck of Spivey's pond house near Swainsboro or appearing at a fish fry at Mutt Kennedy's place in Midville, he swaps family tales and corny jokes before giving his stump speech about the need to bring the Democratic Party back to the center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Times Not Forgotten | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

...stands 5 ft. tall, on point. His face has the canine cantankerousness of a mutt on David Letterman's Stupid Pet Tricks. He secured TV fame playing a gnomish cab dispatcher with a heart of gunk. Not, you might say, Hollywood's idea of a leading man, unless for a Muppet remake of Rumpelstiltskin. But in today's Hollywood, where the hottest teen idol is a 64-year-old named Rodney Dangerfield, anything is possible. So why not Danny DeVito as the topliner of the highly liked summer hit Ruthless People? Or as the scene stealer in a rock video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tinseltown's Tiny Terror | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...does 110 tricks. It's all on your fact sheets." Yeah, yeah, we know. He's a seven- year-old border collie with one brown eye and one blue one. Down and Out in Beverly Hills is the biggest picture in the country, and his performance as the neurotic mutt Matisse was "Oscar-caliber work," according to the New York Times. But your fans are wondering if it's all going to your head, Mike? "Well, it is true that we travel first class on airplanes now. He was simply too stressed out after flying baggage class. Yes, Disney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 3, 1986 | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...famished mutt was then photographed licking some meat which had been rubbed on the boots of John Harvard...

Author: By Inigo L. Garcia, | Title: Harvard vs. Yale vs. The Blob? | 11/22/1985 | See Source »

...entirely typical of Director Walter Murch's gloomily recharted Oz. Even Billina, the feathered critic manque, is part of the problem. She is a substitute for Toto, Dorothy's beloved dog, unaccountably left behind this trip. But though she can talk, she has less animation, and character, than the mutt. The same lack of enchantment afflicts the new friends Dorothy makes on the journey. Instead of the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion of blessed memory, she encounters a pumpkin with stick limbs, a tin soldier and something called a Gump, which looks suspiciously like your basic moosehead. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Some Sideshows of Summer | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

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