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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long deserved an Oscar as best actor. Perhaps for his starring debut, in which he courageously demolished racial stereotypes by playing a poor black child ((clip from The Jerk)). Or for the holy rage he summoned as he renounced Kathleen Turner with a ferocious "Into the mud, scum queen!" ((clip from The Man with Two Brains)). And who can forget his transsexual transcendence as a man inhabited by a woman ((All of Me)), or his searing indictment of painful dentistry ((Little Shop of Horrors)), or the role that was commonly judged his best performance of 1987, as the eloquent romantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sensational Steve Martin | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

HOSPITALIZED. John Huston, 81, Oscar-winning actor-director whose credits include The Maltese Falcon and The African Queen; for bronchopneumonia and emphysema; in Fall River, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 10, 1987 | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

...needs for fantasy and security; in this version, mother and daughter sing about a husband-father, and it makes for an electrifying duet. Throughout the album, the range and vocal glamour displayed offer testimony that Cissy's girl has grown up. Whitney marks graduation day for the prom queen of soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Prom Queen of Soul | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...family's country home while both his parents and Charles were away. When Diana was photographed at a David Bowie concert next to a handsome man, several papers trumpeted that it was Dunne. It was not; Di's companion turned out to be an officer in the Queen's Household Cavalry. The mistake did not deter at least one paper from offering some friendly advice. "Have an early night, Diana," urged a Star columnist. "We really can't have a Princess of Wales hoofing it around town with a clutch of eligible escorts, while her two small children are left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: When In Doubt, Run the Royals | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...departure of Palace Spokesman Michael Shea has worsened the royal family's public relations problem. Shea, who held the job for almost ten years, knew how to subdue a potentially embarrassing story and treated reporters well. His skills would have come in handy three weeks ago when the Queen's youngest son Edward organized a charity event in which he, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Fergie dressed in Elizabethan garb and raucously led teams in mock medieval jousts. Reporters were kept in a tent for six hours and forced to watch the proceedings on a video screen. At a press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: When In Doubt, Run the Royals | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

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