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DECKED OUT in a brown beehive, several inches of Maybelline Moisture Whip mascara and a baby-blue satin Rhinestone cowgirl outfit, country and western hopeful Patsy Cline (Jessica Lange) gazes out into the audience of the proverbial roadhouse-on-the-way-to-no-where and beings to croon, "I'm crazy, crazy for being soooo lonelyyyy." A star is born. The face of country music and the world has been changed forever. Or so Sweet Dreams, Director Karol Reisz's new film chronicling the ups and downs of Patsy Cline, country music's pre-Loretta Lynn sweetheart, would have...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Dream On | 11/7/1985 | See Source »

Raisa Gorbachev made almost as big a hit in London as her husband. A former student of philosophy at Moscow State University, the chic and slender Mrs. Gorbachev showed up at one reception wearing a white satin evening dress and a pair of gold lame sandals. Photographers were so captivated by her that they presented her with a bouquet when she left. Mrs. Gorbachev and her future husband met as students in the 1950s. Their daughter, who is believed to be in her late 20s, and son-in-law reportedly are both doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviets: Glints of Steel Behind the Smile | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...prime time, on such shows as Cagney & Lacey and Kate & Allie. Moreover, several of the season's glitziest newcomers-like ABC's Glitter, which was taken off the air after just three episodes-have been struggling in the ratings. But Collins and her sisters in silk and satin are clearly setting the dominant style of high-gloss femininity, and their ranks are growing. Gina Lollobrigida has joined the cast of Falcon Crest, and Ali MacGraw will appear on Dynasty later this season. Yvette Mimieux will star in a midseason show on NBC called Berrenger's, about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: They're Puttin' On the Glitz | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...minutes, Russell and Screenwriter Barry Sandier have thrown every visual, verbal and sexual excess at the viewer. A played-out stripper dances while men masturbate at peepholes and a deranged preacher (Anthony Perkins) imagines her dead on the floor. The hooker dresses up in a tiara and a blue satin gown to play a beauty-pageant contender with an unusual talent. Neon flares like a headache in hell, and the screen seems caked with guilt and sweat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dark Nights for the Libido | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...South America. He does not have the best voice in show business, or the most galvanizing or innovative style. But what he does have, an exuberancia of charm and sex appeal, would probably be enough to make even the croakings of Kermit the Frog sound like satin. For Iglesias, 40, all that machismo has done something more. It has made him the most popular singer in the world. The Spanish Sinatra, as he is sometimes called, has sold well over 100 million records in six languages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hail the Conquering Crooner | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

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