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The new show's characters do not much resemble the gray-suited, close-cropped, lantern-jawed, devout, straight-arrow white males preferred by longtime Director J. Edgar Hoover, who had iron control of the earlier series, personally approving every actor cast as an FBI agent to be sure he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Always Get Their Man | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

Nowhere have fresh starts and new attempts to achieve fitness been more evident than in the nation's supermarket basket and at the dinner table. Presbyterian Minister Sylvester Graham started the bulk wagon rolling in the 19th century with his famous cracker. Later Post and Kellogg began cleaning digestive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Shapes Up: One, two, ugh, groan, splash: get lean, get taut, think gorgeous | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

This blend of The Great Escape (with Sylvester Stallone in Steve McQueen's old role as the prisoner obsessed with getting out) and Rocky (with the whole team playing Stallone's old role) has but one aim: to convert a movie audience-typically composed of individuals lost in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winning Points | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

Of course, that's not as easy as it sounds today. A dumb hero on the order of Sylvester Stallone just won't flv, for all intents and purposes. There's a thin line between innocence and sophistication, and it is there that Raiders manages to remain balanced. The movie...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Careening Classic | 6/26/1981 | See Source »

> How does this same man (Rutger Hauer) single out of the huge team of police pursuing him the one man, a fellow called Deke, who poses a deadly threat to him and then acquire a detailed dossier on him? Granted, Deke is played by sullen Sylvester Stallone, who tends to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Chicken Feed | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

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