Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Play It Again, Sam...
...That was the question, whether American Actor-Director < Sam Wanamaker (Raw Deal) was going to realize his 30-year-old dream of rebuilding Shakespeare's Globe Theater. That hallowed arena on the south bank of the Thames probably held the first productions of King Lear and Macbeth before it burned to the ground in 1613. Wanamaker first visited the site in 1949, found only a brass plaque on a wall beside the debris-strewn riverbank and felt, "well, outrage." Over the years he and his Shakespeare Globe Trust faced the slings and arrows of competition from other restoration drives...
...right man for the job, Lange says, partly because "he really likes women. He enjoys their energy." The three actresses, each of whom has won an Academy Award, did not know one another before Crimes. They have maintained separate lives off the set. Lange lives with Playwright-Actor Sam Shepard, who plays her former lover in the film, their six-month-old daughter Hannah and Lange's five-year-old daughter Shura, whose father is Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. Spacek moved into a house with her husband Jack Fisk and their three-year-old daughter Schuyler. Keaton has a house...
...premise of Ruthless People should be enough warning. Sam Stone, the short fat "Spandex miniskirt king" (Danny DeVito) plots with his nymphomaniac red-headed mistress to murder his wife. But when Stone gets home with the chloroform, he discovers his wife has been kidnapped. This makes him happy--all he has to do is ignore the abducter's ultimatum: $500,000 or a dead wife. Right...
...American couple named Sandy and Ken (sounds like...Barbie and Ken), who have been exploited by the forces of domination, i.e. the evil fashion industry. Wide-eyed Sandy (Helen Slater), who dreams of being the next Gloria Vanderbilt, apparantly originally designed the Spandex miniskirt which made Sam Stone his fortune, and the oppressed seek revenge...