Word: offbeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their next project, Airplane!, took six years to get to the screen. Every studio rejected their idea for the manic, offbeat satire of everything from film tradition to religion to drug abuse. But the old rags-to-riches fable came true for the team when Paramount finally picked up the film and it became a smash...
NOEL Coward's Hay Fever is a very witty, if fluffy, comedy of manners with distinct, offbeat characters. Unfortunately, the actors in the Lowell House production aren't always up to the demands of Coward's script...
Georgia's Robert Prechter, 39, had become the hottest stock guru in 1986 and '87 because of the bullish predictions in his newsletter The Elliott Wave Theorist ($233 a year). He based his forecasts on a mix of esoteric formulas and offbeat indicators like hemlines: the return of the miniskirt, he said, was a sign of a peak in the market. Prechter issued a warning on Oct. 5, advising his subscribers to sell their stocks. But he did not predict the downturn's severity, which disappointed some followers. "New business has virtually disappeared," Prechter concedes, but he is philosophical: "Going...
...camera" to film slice-of-life vignettes on city streets. The show also cajoles officials to take the hot seat for questions called in by viewers. The Leningrad channel broadcasts the provocative cultural digest Fifth Wheel, focusing on "superfluous people" in the arts and letters, as well as the offbeat 600 Seconds news show, in which commentator Alexander Nevzorov races against a flashing digital clock to summarize the day's events, from cultural calendar to police blotter. Journalist Ott from Estonian TV has been so successful with one-on-one celebrity interviews that his regional program Television Acquaintance has been...
...warm-up highlights more than two dozen athletes who are at the top of their sport, a television viewer's guide to key events, and an offbeat look at Seoul by Contributor Pico Iyer, whose recent book, Video Night in Kathmandu, examines the inroads of Western popular culture throughout Asia. Perhaps the most arresting feature of the special section is photographic. Picture Researcher Dorothy Affa Ames began assigning photographers to cover pre- Olympic meets in April, and since then has edited 5,000 pictures provided by a dozen photojournalists and a score of photo agencies. A former professional photographer, Affa...