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Thursday at 8 p.m.: Youth with Bats, Candy Striper Death Orgy, Agnes Moorhead and wizdom...
Tears streaming down cheeks or a grin from ear to ear equals good word of mouth. Last summer's surprise smash Ghost got 50 million moviegoers suitably weepy. So this summer's early line favored Dying Young, the Julia Roberts sudser about a former Candy Striper who falls in love with a failing patient. Hollywood had two nicknames for the film: Pretty Nurse and Can't Miss. But now second thoughts may be spoiling the party. 20th Century Fox has postponed the movie until late summer, and there's talk of changing both the downbeat ending and the title...
...format was introduced to bring readers some pleasure and to attract writers to submit their work and publish in the next issue, in April. Can you really, in good conscience, turn down this offer? You shit on the Advocate now, soon you'll want to spit on a Candy Striper. And for what? -last night I saw Fred walking stiff-legged down Bow Street toward Dunster House. He said that he had fallen on the ice and bruised his buttocks on a parking meter. He was wearing his slide rule strapped to his belt as usual, but he was carrying...
Warning that Arnheiter's relief at the hands of junior officers would erode authority throughout the service, Alexander brought his complaint directly to Navy Secretary Paul Ignatius. "Mr. Secretary," the four-striper argued in his statement, "what all of your officers will demand to know is just how in hell this could happen in the United States Navy...
Closer to what? Certainly not to an Academy Award. In this routine piece of USNonsense-aptly epitomized in the ship's mascot: a turkey-Pat plays a two-striper, second in command on an LST in the peacetime Navy. When not scuttling his principles with a girl reporter (Barbara Eden), Hero Boone consoles a pointy-headed skipper (Dennis O'Keefe) who dearly loves to fish but sadly catches the only thing that seems to swim in the average gagman's Pacific: a brassiere. Whenever he has nothing worse to do, Pat sings a song. The music will...