Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arena, with Sally Rand doing her fan dance, and Yeager's last, gallant, failed effort to set an altitude record alone in the sky over his desert. In fact, the two events took place 17 months apart, and this is one of the more dubious symbolic linkages. But Sam Shepard, the playwright and occasional movie actor, has a wonderful, hypnotic stillness as Yeager. He is a solid rock on which to build a film and most pleasing to the old pilot, who worked on the film as bit player, stunt flyer and technical adviser...
...Yellow Rose (NBC, Saturdays, 10 p.m.). That old patriarch Wade Champion, he sired more boys than Ibn Saud put together: Roy (David Soul), who runs the Yellow Rose ranch; Quisto (Edward Albert), who wants to put oil derricks on the grazing land; and now Chance (Sam Elliott), fresh from a seven-year stretch for murder one. The women, too, can be hard as a Texas dirt road and twice as dangerous: Grace McKenzie (a sizzling Susan Anspach), the cook, serves up more than biscuits, and Colleen Champion (a restored Cybill Shepherd) looks ready to make trouble with every male...
During the period he mentions, several of my productions were broadcast in West Germany. They were upbeat, with positive contents, and they received favorable reviews throughout the country. But Uncle Sam does not understand that Germans no longer act like the TV Hogan's Heroes characters Sergeant Schultz and Colonel Klink; rather, they exercise critical faculties and display self-respect...
...Harold & Sarah & Sam & Karen & Michael & Meg & Nick-classmates all from the University of Michigan at the end of our last interesting decade-have come to the funeral of a friend who has slashed his wrists. Alex was a charismatic prodigy of science and friendship and progressive hell raising who opted out of academe to try social work, then manual labor, then suicide. He is presented as a victim of terminal decompression from the orbital flight of his college years: a worst-case scenario his friends must ponder, probing themselves for symptoms of the disease...
...Kline), the weekend's host, owns a burgeoning chain of stores that peddles overpriced sneakers to the jogging, today person. His wife Sarah (Glenn Close) is a physician who, five years ago, threw off the "disgusting curse of being a good girl" and had an affair with Alex. Sam (Tom Berenger), once a Movement rhetorician, went to Hollywood and became the macho private eye in a hit TV series, which one of his pals describes as "a sitcom with a machete." Karen (JoBeth Williams), who used to be a closet poet, is now the restless wife...