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...guys and gals, this is Biff Bixley with the scores. Another great night for baseball. Dingers were flying everywhere. Thirty-two home runs, including a clout by Matt Williams of the Giants that looks like it went into orbit. Roll that tape! Is this ball juiced or what? With 44 taters, the Mattmeister has now moved ahead of Roger Maris' record pace. But the big news was in Cleveland, where Albert Belle crushed two homers, including this titanic upper-deck shot, to lead the Tribe to a 9-3 victory over the Brewers. For the first time since...
...left would be about as surprising as the Pope proclaiming his faith in God. But the Brooklyn-born Genovese, 64, the distinguished scholar-in-residence at Atlanta's University Center, has impeccable leftist credentials. Marxist theory, he readily admits, informed his landmark study of slavery in the American South, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. Briefly a Communist Party member, he remained, by his own admission, "a supporter of the international movement and of the Soviet Union until there was nothing left to support." Particularly shocking to Genovese was the ignominious collapse of the East German Communist Party...
...Brooke Ashton is the company ingenue, who is as far from ingenious as the rest of the cast is from their script. Though Brooke is able to put aside her space cadet personality to become the perky Inland Revenue tax secretary of "Nothing On," she is too fragile to roll with the punches when the ride gets bumpy. Oblivious, she sticks to the script, blindly thwarting the others' efforts to ad lib in the face of disaster...
...strictness to life, but not without a little flair. It's quite a change from the calm, reserved playing the orchestra usually produces in performances of the standard Teutonic masterworks. However, one can almost see a bunch of musicians in Moscow, completely ignorant of stylists such as Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington, taking some joy in the fluffy flourishes of Shostakovich's work. These musicians had perhaps heard of Scott Joplin, and in fact Joplin seems the closest to Shostakovich in form...
...idea was for 10 film directors of eccentric renown to take the title but not the plot of a '50s exploitation epic from the vault of American International Pictures and, on a miserly budget of $1.3 million, spin a hip variation on it. So Allan Arkush (Rock 'n' Roll High School) picked Shake, Rattle and Rock; Ralph Bakshi (Fritz the Cat) selected Cool and the Crazy; Joe Dante (Gremlins) chose Runaway Daughters; Uli Edel (Last Exit to Brooklyn) took Confessions of a Sorority Girl; William Friedkin (The Exorcist) got Jailbreakers; Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused) chose Reform School Girl; Mary Lambert...