Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chance to settle in." But three regional television companies have given the ego a beating by dropping the show. Said a spokesman for Central Scotland television: "Our audience didn't like it, and more important, didn't understand it. Seventy percent of the jokes mean Sweet Fanny Adams to us up here...
Meantime, Michael Grade is leaving to "go to work for Lear." This does not mean that he is auditioning for the Royal Shakespeare Company, however, only that he is becoming president of Norman Lear's TV production company in California. This will put him an ocean away from Sweet Fanny, but within hailing distance of Burbank, allowing him to watch the Tonight show five times a week...
...victory claimed. The legacy is not erased, just quiet and manageable. Modern Hatfields and McCoys do not quite know whether to be proud or embarrassed by their inglorious family histories, and most are a little of both. That modest ambivalence, coming from direct descendants of roughneck killers, is almost sweet...
When he hung around after the discovery that he had accepted an expensive Oriental rug from a favor seeker, sweet old Ike lowered the boom. He sent Party Chairman Meade Alcorn to push Adams out the door...
Dusan Makavejev, the film maker who Went Too Far with his anarchist collages W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism and Sweet Movie, has run for cover to Sweden and emerged with this shaggy act of atonement. It is not his fault that he was seven years between pictures, or that his new one seems almost (Gasp!) normal in its story of yet one more mad housewife: Susan Anspach finds fear, loathing, debasement-in short, liberation-when she joins a carnal carnival of Slavic immigrants. Montenegro is a Laurel-and-Hardy jalopy of a film, putting along impudently and then suddenly stalling...