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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lead characters, the steadies-to-be Danny and Sandy (remember John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John?), are one of the show's few weak points. The oh-so-pure Sandra Dee (Susie Glick), though competent, is not entirely convincing. Her singing generally seems a bit forced, as if she wanted to wax operatic. Likewise, her acting is perhaps too stiff for her part...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: Grease is the Word | 12/13/1985 | See Source »

EXPECTING. Olivia Newton-John, 37, candy-voiced Australian singer (Let's Get Physical, Soul Kiss) and actress (Grease, Two of a Kind), and her husband Actor Matt Lattanzi, 26; their first child; in February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 7, 1985 | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...noticeably." After Six formal wear is bringing out a Miami Vice line of dinner jackets next spring, Kenneth Cole will introduce "Crockett" and "Tubbs" shoes, and Macy's has opened a Miami Vice section in its young men's department. TV cops have never been so glamorous. Says Olivia Brown-Williamson, who plays Undercover Detective Trudy Joplin on the show: "Who wanted to look like Kojak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Cool Cops, Hot Show | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...most of the author's large cast of characters are happily categorized. Chronicler Evelyn Waugh offers seedlings of his farces: "Alastair . . . at some stage in the evening lost my waistcoat. Audrey made declarations of love to me, and Richard to Elizabeth and I to Olivia. I do not think Black Torry seduced anyone." When Winston Churchill's son is operated on for a benign tumor, Waugh decides, "It was a typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Personals: A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

...twin brother in a tempest at sea, and assuming him dead, disguises herself in his clothing to pay tribute to his memory. This causes her considerable discomfort, however, since she is forced to hide her love for her "fellow" friend Curio (James Bodge). Add to this Curio's lover Olivia (Margaret Reed) falling unwittingly head over heels for McGovern, and you have the makings of a maze that keeps both actors and audience in a perpetual state of dizzy motion...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: What A Night | 12/18/1984 | See Source »

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