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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Airplane! alumnus Leslie Nielsen plays Lieutenant Drebin, who sets out in the tried and true cop show quest: avenging the attempted murder of his partner. The first half hour of the film is inspired, from the hilarious credit sequence to Nielsen's first scene, in which he foils an anti-American plot by some of America's most notorious enemies such as Muammar Khaddafi and Idi Amin. The attempted killing of Nielsen's partner (O.J. Simpson) is a slapstick tour-de-force...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Going Great Guns | 12/2/1988 | See Source »

David Zucker and his brother Jerry met Abrahams in the early 1970s in Madison, Wisconsin, where they all were students. Together they worked up a show comprised of some video and live skits they called Kentucky Fried Theater. Weiss hooked up with the "ZAZ" (Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker) team when he went to see the show and loved it, returning again and again. That production went on to be the basis for their low-budget cult classic, Kentucky Fried Movie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERVIEW | 12/2/1988 | See Source »

...fans that bother to show up at Texas Stadium these days literally wear bags over their heads. Sixty-four percent of those polled by the Dallas Times Herald recently called for Landry to ride his horse into the sunset and leave the Cowboys...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: America's Team Illusion Is Gone | 12/1/1988 | See Source »

...also supposes that open criticism encourages support of Israel by non-Jews, and that failure to illuminate Israel's flaws causes non-Jews to reevaluate their support. How can such an intelligent, educated person show such a basic misunderstanding of the reason for Americans' strong support of Israel? Israel is supported because it is America's loyal ally and the only democracy in the Middle East. Israel gives America technology, military intelligence and a strategic base. Americans support Israel out of self-interest, whether or not American Jews criticize Israel. Calling Israel immoral only serves to relieve the moral consciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israel | 12/1/1988 | See Source »

...very happy with the freshmen," said Coach Kathy Delaney Smith. "Harris was exceptional...very poised. She created a lot that doesn't show in the numbers...

Author: By Christine Dimino, | Title: W. Cagers Pioneer a Laugher, 106-34 | 11/30/1988 | See Source »

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