Word: princess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bureau Chief Dan Goodgame approached the assignment of reporting this week's main cover story on teenage Actress Molly Ringwald with a mixture of curiosity and dread. "I've covered school-board meetings and murders, wars and paper-airplane contests," he says, "but I had never profiled a movie princess. How, I wondered, was I going to make conversation with a woman of 18 over the space of several days, much less keep pace with her?" Goodgame, a TIME correspondent since 1984 and formerly a Miami Herald reporter in the Middle East, is a venerable...
...also funny movies, finely crafted and boasting spectacular ensemble acting. Some of the young actors--Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Andrew McCarthy--have become brand names, a veritable Hughes' Who, in any household with an occupant under 18. But in these films they are consorts to the princess in pink. "Molly is in a class of her own," Hughes says, "as a bankable box-office attraction. Now audiences will go see a 'Molly Ringwald film.' " Hughes wrote his scripts for her, tailored the characters to her precocious range of emotions, found in her the focal point...
Scott must have thought the story of Legend was immensely rich and complicated; the film begins with a 168-word crawling preface. Yet it is as simple as a bedtime tale, and may have the same effect: putting the kiddies right to sleep. Lili (Mia Sara) is a fairyland princess, all coquettish glances and sweet mischief. Her beau, Jack o' the Green (Tom Cruise), is a swain of the woodland working class. When Lili touches one of the magic white unicorns--can't have your bucolic fantasy without some unicorns--the Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry) begins to work...
...Princess Margaret tipsily suggests that the new royal baby be christened Johnny Walker, then collapses in a drunken heap. The Pope comes on as just another hipster in wraparound shades, with a banjo and a Texas drawl. And Ronald Reagan spends most of his time in pajamas searching for his missing brain...
...great appeal of the free-for-all farce lies mostly in its outrageousness. Its sights are trained equally upon every sacred cow. During last year's Christmas special, for example, Prince Philip was shown clutching a bottle of liquor, with Princess Anne collapsed on his shoulder and a housewifely Queen sporting a button that read BAN THE BOMB. In another sketch, a wooden Prince Charles knocks forlornly on his wife's bedroom door, calling, "Does one want to do a jigsaw with one?" Prince Andrew's fiancee Sarah ("Fergie") Ferguson has already become one of the show's targets...