Word: quest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tireless quest for realism, Hollywood has already used the war-torn Middle East as a backdrop for such films as Hanna K. starring Jill Clayburgh, and the recently completed The Ambassador, starring Robert Mitchum and Rock Hudson. Now comes The Little Drummer Girl, which was shot on the barren hills of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Based on John le Carré's best-selling novel, the movie stars Diane Keaton, 38, as Charlie, an impressionable English actress who is recruited by Israeli intelligence for a double-agent mission against Palestinian terrorists. Keaton trained with a bazooka...
...bitter end. By then his oddly incompatible circle of friends came to include both Jazz Guitarist Eddie Condon and Lyndon Johnson. When, nearly 60 and plagued by circulatory ailments, he climbed into a camper and spent three months chugging across the U.S. with his dog, the hit-or-miss quest could have symbolized his life. "I don't belong anywhere," he confessed to a friend...
...Ambassador to Moscow. Gromyko spoke with regret about Arafat's predicament; the P.L.O., he said, was gradually moving toward a more moderate position, with the balance shifting toward those who acknowledge Israel's right to exist. Much of the talk touched on the Soviet Union's quest to be directly involved in future Middle East negotiations. "Why do you Americans feel you have a right to play a special role in the Middle East?" Gromyko asked. The Foreign Minister said that the Soviet government had urged Syria to exercise restraint and claimed that in most cases...
Virtually every major director of videos (Mulcahy, Steve Barren, Bob Giraldi, Brian Grant, Paul Justman) is in the throes of making a major studio feature. Warner Bros. Vice President Mark Canton describes the studio's upcoming Vision Quest as Rocky and Flashdance meet The Graduate, and says, "A movie has to feel like sound." Miles Copeland, head of I.R.S. Records and Video, has put together a women's rock group made up half of actresses, half of musicians. The actresses are learning music, the musicians are learning to act, all for a Columbia project called Exceptions...
...Russian espionage organizations. The novel Gorky Park rivals John Le Carre's Smiley's People and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with a systematic, psychological unravelling of a bizarre mystery. Like Robert Ludlum's intricate tales, including Parsifal Mosaic, each minute the hero faces some new opposition to his quest for eclipsing the top-level "mole." This movie captures the cold tenseness central to Smith's book, mirroring the rivetting story of Russian policeman Arkady Renko's struggle to solve three seemingly inexplicable murders. Renko, like George Smiley, is an underdog, and during his exhausting investigation he must confront...