Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot sounds as if it was borrowed from television, the reason is simple: it was. Tora-San began in 1968 as a TV series, but failed to impress network executives. When Tora-San dropped dead after being bitten by a snake, infuriated fans clogged switchboards in protest. The chief fan was Director Yoji Yamada, 51, who persuaded a reluctant film company to let him make just one Tora-San film for general release...
...Overtown violence began at a neighborhood video-game arcade on 14th Street. Tall, skinny Nevell ("Snake") Johnson, 20, was playing a game called Eagle after work. Just past 6 p.m., two uniformed Miami policemen, Luis Alva rez, 32, and Louis Cruz, 22, came in on their own to scrutinize the place and its 30 patrons, almost all of them young blacks...
Johnson's cousin by marriage, Marvin Brown, 23, was a few feet away. "Snake made no resistance at all, none," Brown insisted. He agreed with the police, however, that Johnson was carrying a pistol...
...talents of stars who may be big shots in some other medium, but don't know the tricks of the movie trade. In this instance, the victim is Bette Midler, getting by as usual on brass, bounce and breastworks. The perpetrator is Rip Torn, a snake-eyed sneak who has been lifting the hubcaps off other people's scenes for years, but here moves up to capital crime. He may be the last actor left who can get a laugh out of a belch, and the first to get one by throwing a cat at a wall...
...Lodge on the edge of Jackson Lake in Wyoming. The Grand Tetons rose into the clear sky across the water, some of our newest and most unweathered mountains, the sharp peaks a breathtaking spectacle. Earlier in the day, I had been fly-fishing for cutthroat trout in the nearby Snake River. Late in the afternoon, Amy and I had picked wild huckleberries in a grove of quaking aspen near the cabin, and we all enjoyed a delicious berry pie for supper. Although it was not cold, Rosalynn and I built a small fire just to watch the flames...