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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...continued his running career with spring track, until junior year when he was kicked off the track team because he went to a prom instead of a meet...

Author: By Decky Martman, | Title: Scott Murrer | 2/18/1982 | See Source »

...What a great feeling!" the pioneer "Scat" or nonsense syllable singer, said after accepting the award Fitzgerald who spent part of her career with the Duke Ellington band said that she had once played at a Harvard prom adding "Who would have ever thought I'd be back to receive an award--it's been a long time this has made up for all the time...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Singer Ella Fitzgerald Honored As Pudding Woman of Year | 2/18/1982 | See Source »

...Trouble with Harry. But the most passionate Brian De Palma-and maybe the real one-is the child of Vertigo, Hitchcock's essay on the fatal power of obsessive love. In plot skeleton and flesh tones, De Palma's Obsession was a remake of Vertigo, and the prom scene in Carrie suffused its heroine in a mood of crimson romanticism. Blow Out, for all its borrowings from political and cinematic fact and fancy, is one more story of an obsessive idealist lost in a lush forest of intrigue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Crash | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

...matching gestures and grunts. The enamored young couple, Ferdinand (David Marshall Grant) and Miranda (Jessica Nelson), who should breathe the spirit of nascent romance into the play, are equally dismaying. He seems like a rough and randy high school jock and she like a simp of a gum-chewing prom queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Isle of Blight | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

Crowned the "Queen of the Creepies" for her roles in such harem-scarems as Halloween and Prom Night, Actress Jamie Lee Curtis, 22, graduates to real life in her next part but still plays a victim. In the NBC-TV movie The Dorothy Straiten Story, Curtis will play the Playmate of the Year turned actress who was murdered last August by her husband. The daughter of Actor Tony Curtis, 56, and Actress Janet Leigh, 54, Jamie will be dressed for family viewing in the TV movie, but will show off those good family lines in a racier European version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 13, 1981 | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

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