Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American family has weathered the Bunkers and the Louds. It has endured the departures of sweet Kristy McNichol and, after this season, Little House's Melissa Gilbert, and kept another charmer, Marilyn Jones of ABC'S upcoming series King's Crossing, on hold. Can it survive the child as cult object? Now that President Reagan is calling for a return to traditional values, television families should discipline their own children. A few home remedies...
...Americana Hotel or a lengthy sojourn in a Ukrainian cafeteria in the east twenties. Though craven in the utmost, he dashes off to Djibouti or Jakarta at a moments notice, spewing out words along the way like "henbane," "anchor," "parlous," "jardiniere" as well as an occasional "zounds" or "sweet-patootie". A cultural sponge that oozes erudition and arcana, he recalls Yeats in the same breath that he expounds on an ancient tooth powder advertisement. No matter what guise he shows up in, Perelman's persona is a curious mixture of gallic pride, English cynicism, and mostly, Yiddish fatalism...
...appear on Broadway next year as F.D.R.'s confidant Harry Hopkins. In her 75th year, Hepburn is magnetizing the attention of Philadelphia theatergoers in The West Side Waltz, prior to its Broadway opening next week. The play, written by On Golden Pond's Ernest Thompson, takes its own sweet three-quarter time to penetrate the twilight life of a Manhattan widow, but Hepburn triumphantly skirts sentimentality, displaying her radiance even as her character limps, hobbles and crawls toward accommodation with old age. The next time they meet, Hepburn might well say to Fonda what she exults...
...sense of comedy." John Wayne (Rooster Cogburn): "He wasn't as clever as Spence, but a brilliant actor nonetheless, bigger than life in his performance?and often when he didn't have to be." Peter O'Toole (The Lion in Winter): "He can do anything. A bit cuckoo, but sweet and terribly funny." Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen): "Bogart was like Fonda?proud and happy to be an actor...
HARVARD 24, PENN 10--Soldiers Field becomes Home, Sweet Home, again...