Word: screen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scudder appears not a moment too soon, but still rather too late to rescue a movie in which Maurice and his great love, Clive (Hugh Grant), spend unconscionable amounts of screen time chastely twittering over their Cambridge teacups about the Platonic ideal of male love. Scudder also arrives on this pristine scene long after Maurice himself has dithered to death the matter of physically consummating his natural impulses...
...finds herself in bucolic unemployment in Vermont and soon in the arms of Jeff Cooper (Sam Shepard), who accurately describes himself as "the only man in town under 60." Shepard spends his screen time looking befuddled, as if to ask, "Was there any reason I was cast in this film, other than that I am the only man in Hollywood with teeth as bad as Diane Keaton...
Dominating one wall of the control room was an enormous display screen showing a map of the world. Superimposed on the map, a line traced the orbit of the Mir space station, with rings along it representing ground stations. Mir's position was marked by a blue-green light, which was moving slowly across the circle centered on Moscow. The flyby would take only eight minutes, after which the window of communication would close. The audio feed came through with startling clarity, as if Cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko were standing in the next room. "The work here is very interesting...
...Starring Lots of Actors," the opening credits of this Son of Kentucky Fried Movie announce. Also five directors (including Joe Dante and John Landis) and two TV-bred writers (Michael Barrie and Jim Mulholland) itching to bring skitcom to the big screen. Some episodes offer social satire, such as one starring Griffin Dunne as an impish obstetrician who insists that his painted fist is a woman's newborn baby ("Wanna breast-feed him?"). But most find plenty of fun at show biz's expense. Movies: Amazon Women on the Moon, a parody of the already camp Zsa Zsa Gabor epic...
Sylvia Stark, 61, had just returned to her home in southwest Miami earlier this month when she heard someone rattling the latch on the front porch. Before she could call the police, a brawny youth barreled through the screen door, grabbed her purse and dashed off to a waiting car. Two weeks later the still shaken housewife could be found at a local shooting range, carefully aiming her new Smith & Wesson .38 Special at the blue silhouette of a would-be assailant. Says Stark: "The robbery made me very paranoid, and I just want to protect myself. Next time...