Word: roach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...films in its library, is paying up to $180,000 a movie for computerized-color versions of such classsics as the 1942 musical Yankee Doodle Dandy, starring James Cagney, and the 1941 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which featured Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner. Hal Roach Studios, which owns 35% of Colorization, expects to have 15 movies for sale or rental in video shops by next spring, including ten Laurel and Hardy features and the original, 1937 version of Topper, starring Gary Grant and Constance Bennett...
Technicians in the labs come up with ideas of their own that find their way into Sears products. Engineer-Manager Jim Roach estimates that 1,000 patents have been granted to Sears since 1930. Few innovations have been startingly new or involved complex technology; they
King of the heap is the Harvard Square Theatre (3 Church St.), which does show Casablanca a lot. A couple of years ago it consolidated its one large roach-model of a theater into three smaller units. The one upstairs continues the daily double-feature tradition begun by its predecessor. Each day there is a different double feature--usually put together reasonably well. A few years ago, the groupings were more inventive, but now they seem to have found what pays and have decided to stick with it, serving up a steady diet of Woody Allen, Bogart, and James Bond...
Predictably, as in all poor-street-girl-wasting-her-life-away movies, this film has its heroes: the cop, who nobly dedicates his life to saving girls like Angel with lines like "You're living in a dream world, baby,"; the college counselor, who visits Angel's roach-ridden tenement in an I Magnan's dress to save the bright, ambitious student; and, of course, the strectfelk--including the protective transvestite, the pistol-toting imitator of Kit Carson, and the tobacco-chewing; gun-wielding landlord...
...Faced with IBM's attack, Apple President John Sculley says: "We've got to make Mac an industry milestone in the next hundred days. If we don't get it together in 1984, Apple is going to be just another personal-computer company." Concurs John Roach, chairman of Tandy, the maker of Radio Shack computers: "If Mac doesn't take off, Apple has to watch...