Word: rita
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yale graduation. Why, he is still wearing his dinner jacket. His first seatmate on the flight has been "Tom Tuttle from Tacoma" (John Candy), who reads books about maximizing his potential capital-wise and is the most egregious go-getter since Babbitt. His next is Beth Wexler (Rita Wilson), who rejects a night and a day of advances, to Lawrence's immense puzzlement ("I do think I've put in the hours, don't you?"). The rest of this ship of idealists bellows away the time with endless choruses of '60s sing-along favorites like Puff the Magic Dragon...
...Prevention of Cruelty to Children)." Suspicious of the ad, the Times checked and found that no such deaths had been reported in Penzance and that Princess Margaret of Hesse, 72, who happened to be visiting Queen Elizabeth at Balmoral, was actually childless. Scotland Yard traced the ad to Rita Coleman, a local magistrate, who said a mysterious "Countess Maggie," whom she had never met, had contacted her at a charity she worked with and asked her to place the death notice of her three children...
...attracted established stars to work with esteemed journeymen and expectant beginners. Everyone in American theater, it seems, has sojourned there, and over the years nearly 200 company members have earned awards for stage, screen or TV work. Among them: 1985 Tony Winner Stockard Channing, Oscar Winners Rita Moreno and Christopher Walken, Emmy Winner Nancy Marchand. What lures them to Williamstown? A casual atmosphere, the chance to experiment without commercial pressures and the sylvan pleasures of the Williams College campus in the Massachusetts Berkshires. This year the company staged 78 events in a variety of spaces, some for just one night...
Arthur and his wife Rita, 50, were well liked by neighbors in the prosperous five-family cul-de-sac. Alone in their brick four-bedroom home after their three grown children moved away, the couple was involved in local civic work. Arthur had helped form the block's anti-crime program, and served as president of both a local civic league and a swim club. Recalled one neighbor: "They were an all-American family...
...history is more cryptic than that of Noah Cross (John Huston in Chinatown), ruthless Los Angeles pioneer, father to his own granddaughter and possible sire of Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai). He is the omnipotent wizard in Thomson's sinister Oz, an America whose center is located in Bedford Falls, Neb. It is a mythical place of lost innocence and the home of George Bailey, who watches SAC bombers over the cornfields of his youth and concludes that "America is just a story of its men and women going from happiness to stoicism...