Word: raked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rose--Even if Bette Midler, former queen of New York's Roman baths and reigning queen of bawdy rock and roll doesn't get an Oscar for her performance as a Janis Joplin clone rock star of the '60s, this movie will still rake in the big dough. Why? Because despite some wooden acting by the supporting cast, The Rose has got lots of "sex, drugs and rock and roll." It also has Midler, who, despite the movie's flat finish, is phenomenal in her Hollywood debut...
...Gwen--the youngest Cavendish, who's torn between love and the stage--gives a fine performance except when called upon, in the ineptly-written love scenes or her own renunciation of a stage career, to display excesses of emotion. Rounding out the clan, Michael Cantor's Anthony--the rake of the family, who sold out to Hollywood--hams his way through his part with plenty of panache but without some of the stature you might expect...
...small cars, Jeeps and steady Government contracts for postal vehicles and military tactical trucks. Since 1974, AMC's line-up of cars has shrunk from six to three: Concord, Spirit and Pacer. While analysts say that they are not making money, the high-profit Jeep continues to rake it in. There was some sales softness earlier in the year because of its fuel thirst, but the Jeep rebounded strongly in September and October...
...magazine tells us where Jerzy Kosinski hangs out: dingy streets, sex clubs, hospital operating rooms, and polo fields. I thought once that Jerzy Kosinski had the most fantastic and bizarre imagination of any American writer. Lurid episodes splatter his pages, rapes of village nymphs by jealous peasant women with rake handles and broken bottles and remote-control murders on Swiss ski slopes. Yet if People can be trusted, Kosinski's tales are more life than art, drawing on a misguided, exotic youth...
Kean was the first superstar, an Olivier onstage and an Errol Flynn off, a rake, a wastrel and yet an actor, as Critic William Hazlitt said, who had "a gleam of genius." If he were at the end of his career today, he would be writing his memoirs in Malibu and growing rich off Polaroid commercials. In Sartre's play, however, he is dodging creditors, juggling mistresses and in his spare moments asking himself that old existential question: Who am I? Sartre's answer, given with stylish wit, is that Kean is like all of life...