Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could displace Doug Flutie as the reigning icon of America's youth? In the midst of this three-ring circus of bikers, drug dealers and juvenile delinquents-come-lately, Rocky sticks out like a biker in a tuxedo--or a T.V. movie director spraying creative graffiti on the silver screen. We mourn for him not only because he is trapped inside a horribly defective body, but because he is confined to a looking-glass existence peopled by characters from over the rainbow...
...internal Ouija board to find Roberta's pressure points. Says Susan Seidelman: "Rosanna has a rich emotional life she's in constant touch with. It meant for enormous temperamental ups and downs on the set. But then I'd look at the rushes and love what's on the screen...
...Robert Falcon Scott, who perished in the Antarctic. It also celebrates Nabokov's favorite turf: terra incognita. The playwright liked to dream of butterfly-hunting trips to the Caucasus, Mount Elbrus, the Amazon. And he recalled "tingles of delight, of envy, of anguish (when) I watched on the television screen the first floating footsteps of man in the talcum of our satellite and how I despised those who maintained it was not worth all those dollars to walk in the dust of a dead world...
DIED. Michael Redgrave, 77, regal British stage and screen actor, one of the most versatile performers in the great British generation that includes Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud and patriarch of an acting dynasty that numbers his wife Rachel Kempson, daughters Vanessa and Lynn and son Corin; of Parkinson's disease; in Denham, England. Tall and handsome, a superb, cerebral technician with a richly expressive voice, he was less likely to play romantic leads than cool intellectuals or forbidding colonels whose aloof or aristocratic facades fail to conceal the emotions within. On the London stage, he mastered some...
...grand romantic passion when all the evidence suggests that our hero was merely having a good time before he settled down with a more appropriate mate. The woman he marries is kept in figurative purdah ("She is my private love, not for publication"), though he pulls back the screen when it suits...