Word: supermans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chinks appeared in the White Knight's armor. McGuane and Crockett were divorced, and a nine-month marriage to actress Margot Kidder (Superman) came and went. In 1977 McGuane took a third trip to the altar, with Alabama-born Laurie Buffet, who is the sister of his friend country singer Jimmy Buffet. McGuane's reputation bottomed out in 1978 when he received a critical licking for Panama, a caustically humorous novel that limned the dark side of fame. The same year, actress Elizabeth Ashley threw fat on the media fire by sparing few details of her romance with McGuane...
...bother to label Mamet a liberal or a conservative. He is a free radical attaching himself to whatever particle of reality promises further knowledge of the whole. At times he can be -- well, freakish. How about an interpretation of Superman as the most vulnerable of beings because his childhood had been destroyed? Outre? You bet. But as Mamet confesses, "I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact." R.Z.S...
...been called "an iconoclastic genius," "a Superman of Madison Avenue," "a legendary advertising guru." George Lois modestly demurs: he prefers to think of himself as "a semi-legendary advertising guru." Naturally that made him the perfect choice for us. Beginning this month, Lois, the creative director of the New York advertising agency Lois/GGK, has taken charge of communicating TIME's editorial benefits to readers and advertisers across America...
...restrict its range of interests to monastic, medieval arcana. This time Eco's framework is vast -- capacious enough to embrace reams of ancient, abstruse writings and a host of contemporary references or allusions. The latter include the Yellow Submarine, Casablanca, Tom and Jerry, Lina Wertmuller, Barbara Cartland, Stephen King, Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Flash Gordon, the Pink Panther, Minnie Mouse and Hellzapoppin. What do all of these things have to do with one another? Eco's teasing answer: maybe everything, maybe nothing...
That is the hope of all involved, that the character who began as a Superman clone will have inspired a daring new work. And if this summer's audiences agree, who knows? Moviegoers of the future may refer to this film as Batman...