Word: rio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uniquely Brazilian scene. The government minister who had resigned from his post on Friday morning was sitting on the beach in Rio do Janeiro on Saturday afternoon, while a national television network interviewed him in his swimming trunks...
...these neighborhoods although the construction of a high-rise hotel occasionally pierces the calm. These districts have their weekly fruit-and-vegetable market on a sidestreet like the famous "Copacabana." But Copacabana has been honky-tonk and out-of-style ever since Fred and Ginger flew down to Rio 50 years...
Even for "The Voice," as local newspapers dubbed him, it was big box office. Some 120,000 Brazilians bought tickets to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Rio de Janeiro's Maracanã stadium. On four nights before his stadium appearance, capacity crowds paid $450 a head to hear Ol' Blue Eyes warble The Coffee Song and The Girl from Ipanema along with his golden oldies while they dined on lobster salad, beef heart and French champagne at the opulent new Rio Palace Hotel. But as usual the boy from Hoboken did the gig his way. Flying down...
...fadeout of Rio Lobo, a Hollywood oater of 1970, Starlet Sherry Lansing guns down the varmint who had done her wrong and sashays off into the sunset with John Wayne. As she recalls, "I wasn't interested in being an actress at first, but when I walked onto that set, I started to become obsessed with film." Now the magnificent obsession has led to a new job in which the former actress and model will continue to face tough hombres. Last week Lansing, 35, was named president of production at 20th Century-Fox Pictures, putting her in charge...
...guts for the notoriously rugged industry. After graduating from Northwestern University, she went to Los Angeles to teach in a Watts high school just after the bloody riots of 1965. Later she became a model for Max Factor and Alberto-Culver, then landed movie roles in Loving and Rio Lobo. But she preferred the production side and quit acting to take a $5-an-hour job as a script reader...