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...others would be satisfied with hatred. Justin Henry's Billy is not just another in the string of Tatum O'Neal-styled brats. The kid is no actor and the natural touches he adds--the smirk over a pint of chocolate chip ice cream, amusement at watching his father ruin the french toast--are indispensible to the realistic rapport built between father...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Hoffman vs. Streep | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

HJLSA members said Mendelsohn's reassignment could ruin the government's effort. "With Mendelsohn's departure, foreign governments will now longer take seriously our commitment to prosecuting Nazi war criminals and neither will citizens at home," an HJLSA spokesman said...

Author: By Kenneth J. Ryan, | Title: Law Group Fights Justice Dept. Move | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

Garson Kanin, playwright (Born Yesterday), novelist (The Rat Race) and Hollywood memoirist, is wooden in his overall structure but energetic in his scenes. The Fatty Arbuckle party that led to his sex scandal, trial, ruin and censorship; Greta Garbo's slow but sure rise to stardom amid the "ah-rintch" groves, and the pandemoniac search for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara. Much space is devoted to a novelization of the rise and fall of Marilyn Monroe. Farber's conclusion: Hollywood did not kill her; "it was just a case of bad luck, mismanagement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roll 'Em | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...Spock ears, hound the actors for autographs, and faint if they see Leonard Nimoy in person. Trekkers publish fanzines and write doctoral theses on the show, hound the writers for autographs, and sneer when they mention Trekkies.) Both species were hopeful but anxious, afraid that a film flop would ruin the memory of the series...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Cheap Trek? | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

...Sacred Mosque in Mecca, the holiest shrine in all Islam (see WORLD). In Pakistan, a mob enraged by radio reports claiming that the U.S. had inspired the attack on the Mecca mosque stormed and set fire to the U.S. embassy. They left the modernistic, 30-acre compound a gutted ruin. Two Americans were killed; 90 others were rescued after seven hours of horror (see following pages). Angry crowds also threw rocks through the windows of a U.S. consulate in Izmir, Turkey; another crowd chanted "Down with American imperialism!" outside the American embassy in Dacca, Bangladesh; demonstrators in Calcutta stoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angry Attacks on America | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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