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What had a Niagara of cascading hair, a smile like sunrays, some discreet thigh and a revolutionary effect on the poster business? A picture of Farrah Fawcett, that's what. The Farrah poster, still the alltime bestseller in a crowded field, pushed aside peace symbols and cartoon characters. Top draws today include such entries as Farrah's replacement Angel, Cheryl Ladd, and WKRP in Cincinnati's Loni Anderson, but Muppetdonna Miss Piggy is way up on the charts too, as a kind of ham amid the cheese. Beefcake has sold as well, including young Rock Stars Andy...
WATCH OUT, BISHOP, THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN, proclaimed one hand-painted poster, in a gibe at the biracial former government's Prime Minister, Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who will be the Front's main rival in the February elections. The raucous demonstration was both a sign of the guerrillas' broad-based popular support and a reminder of the volatile emotions that still threaten the fragile truce. "Zimbabwe out of the gun," rang an aggressive cheer...
...posters for the film show Robert Redford holding Jane Fonda by the thighs while she hangs on for dear life with her head between his legs. No such scene ever occurs in the film. The posters also advertise with the catchword "Electric," hinting that Fonda and Redford spar and spark together like Hepburn and Grant in the olden days. It's not that the poster meant to lie, they just wouldn't sell many tickets with a slogan like "Blown Fuse." Truth is, Redford makes a cute, loveable cowboy in this pleasant, if pretentious, film. And Fonda makes a cute...
...Earlier this month in Manhattan, the highest amount ever brought by a poster at auction -$26,000-went for Toulouse-Lautrec's color lithograph of Parisian Cabaret Singer Aristide Bruant...
That drastic step hardly proved necessary. Sitting between a portrait of the Ayatullah Khomeini and an anti-Shah poster, Marine Corporal William Gallegos seemed fit and lucid. His remarks were excerpted on the evening news and aired in full during a half-hour special later that night. He said that, among other things, none of the 30 or so hostages he saw regularly had been mistreated or brainwashed. The six minutes of propaganda from "Mary," which would have cost a political candidate $32,000 at that hour, were rambling restatements of the students' positions. The broadcast produced front-page...