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...unless for a Muppet remake of Rumpelstiltskin. But in today's Hollywood, where the hottest teen idol is a 64-year-old named Rodney Dangerfield, anything is possible. So why not Danny DeVito as the topliner of the highly liked summer hit Ruthless People? Or as the scene stealer in a rock video touting a previous hit, The Jewel of the Nile? Or as the voice of the sweet-souled Grundle King in the cartoon feature My Little Pony? Or as a bustling writer, director and producer? Sure: Danny DeVito as a trash- compacted Stallone-Springsteen-Copp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tinseltown's Tiny Terror | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...first tentative striptease in the Disney canon. Otherwise it's business and pleasure as usual. Keen-witted Basil of Baker Street and his colleague Dr. Dawson search for a girl mouse's father, a toymaker abducted by the evil rodent genius Professor Ratigan. The movie's scene-stealer is a peg-legged bat named Fidget, who gets laughs when someone stomps on his foot ("My only foot!"). Later Basil and Dawson are trussed up on Ratigan's killer mousetrap, a Rube Spielberg device that jump-starts the filmmakers' ingenuity and accelerates the plot toward its nifty climax. Nothing as weighty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Walt's Precocious Progeny | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...Dicresare, who leads the team in strikeouts with 15. DePalo does have 17 RBI, but he isn't hitting for power this year, with only two doubles and three homers. DiCesare has almost as many RBI (14), one more double and one less home run. Depalo is better base stealer as well...

Author: By Mike Knoblerler, | Title: Kay's Little Finger Poses a Big Problem | 4/23/1985 | See Source »

...opera star who sang 726 performances with New York City's Metropolitan Opera from 1954 to 1978, specializing in such roles as Falstaff and Dr. Bartolo in The Barber of Seville and winning the delighted chuckles of audiences and critics, one of whom dubbed him "the greatest scene stealer in the history of opera"; of a heart attack; in Lugano, Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 10, 1984 | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...gained a three run lead in the top of the first when clean up batter. Audrey Kutchuktan knocked a home run into deep center field. In the third inning. B.U. scored its fourth--but final--run when Harvard catcher Cindy Phillips tried to pick off a B.U. stealer headed for second. Not only was the runner safe, but a B.U. player took the opportunity to steal home...

Author: By Jon Askin, | Title: Batwomen Down Terriers, 6-4, In Come-From-Behind Victory | 4/7/1983 | See Source »

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