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Word: offerred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Katz could offer no sure-fire formula for Hollywood success to aspiring screenwriters, producers and directors in the audience, but he did cite "taste, business acumen, a sense of fairness and awareness of social responsibility" as prerequisites...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: No Yellow Brick Road Will Lead to Hollywood | 4/25/1989 | See Source »

SENIOR events and souvenirs are supposed to bring the class together, but this shirt leaves a lot of us out. Pardon me, I'm going to be a starving journalist. I probably won't even answer American Express' generous offer to let me get a charge card for only $55 a year...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: The Wrong Message for a Class Gift | 4/25/1989 | See Source »

...does the film offer the easy pleasures of a conventional movie bio. Earl Mac Rauch's script mixes fantasy and fact in an ambitious, if muddled, attempt at surrealistic psychodrama. In the opening scene, the dead Belushi (played by newcomer Michael Chiklis) wakes up in a morgue, escapes in a gown resembling the toga he wore in Animal House and meets a guardian angel in the guise of a taxi driver (Ray Sharkey). Their conversations are intermingled with time- jumbled flashbacks of Belushi's life, snippets of his comedy material and scenes of Woodward pursuing the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Finally, The Belushi Story | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...Except for Aykroyd (Gary Groomes), Belushi's wife Judy (Lucinda Jenney) and Cathy Smith (Patti D'Arbanville), the woman who allegedly gave Belushi his fatal drug injection, most real-life characters are given pseudonyms, and none are shown indulging in drug use with Belushi. Only a couple of scenes offer hints that Hollywood might share any blame in Belushi's death. In one, Woodward asks a studio executive about the $2,500 a week reportedly paid to Belushi for drugs. In another, a Belushi assistant admits that he gave the star uppers before a recording session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Finally, The Belushi Story | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...forebears. But what they lack in name recognition they make up for in diversity. Nearly half, including Weekly Reader, Junior Scholastic and Science Weekly, are designed as teaching aids for the classroom. Outside school, magazines such as the venerable Boys' Life, Highlights for Children and the new U.S. Kids offer a combination of fiction and nonfiction stories, puzzles and contests. Then there is the fast-growing crop of special-interest magazines, including Cobblestone (history), Faces (anthropology), Odyssey (space exploration and astronomy), Cricket (fiction), Merlyn's Pen (student fiction) and television companions like Alf and Sesame Street. A subset includes junior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Tapping The Kiddie Market | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

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