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...leading player in the detective show--Robert Urich, best-known for his role as Dan Tanna on the once-popular serial "Vega$"--was also on location, eliciting surprise and glee from star-struck passersby...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spenser: For Hire | 11/21/1985 | See Source »

...contract winners include Boeing ($131 million), TRW ($57 million), Lockheed ($33 million) and Rockwell ($25 million). Scores of other star-struck companies, from giant IBM to tiny General Research of Santa Barbara, Calif., have also pushed onto the SDIO payroll. Says Wolfgang Demisch, an analyst at the First Boston investment firm: "SDI is the future of the defense industry. No competitive high-tech company can afford not to be a part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Star Wars Sweepstakes | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...premise is irresistible. Screenwriter Terry Johnson has adapted his London stage play, combines star-struck childhood fantasy with that most basic, and base, of human impulses--reckless voyeurism. Yoking together the competing myths of his protagonists, he unleashes them on unsuspecting viewers in a bizarre kind of Battle of the Network Stars...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Odd Couple | 9/20/1985 | See Source »

...tour, the pop idol was intrigued by a portrait of Andrew Jackson, whose military jacket was vaguely similar to his own. Later Jackson agreed to meet a few presidential staffers and their children, but fled to the men's room when he saw a waiting throng of 75 star-struck adults. The grownups were politely asked to beat it, and Jackson emerged to meet his young fans-a few at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 28, 1984 | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...Sapir, president of Starline Sightseeing Tours. "If they don't go by bus, they'll go by car, get out and walk, knock on doors. It'll be worse." While continuing their lawsuit, the companies have rerouted their buses to nearby Bel Air to allow the star-struck to look for such celebrities as Burt Reynolds, Barbra Streisand or Gregory Peck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banned Buses | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

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