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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...external characters complement Dorsey, Michaels, and Kimberly enabling the other actors to perform superbly Teri Garr as Dorsey's spacey girl friend is consistently funny as she tries to hold onto Dorsey as a lover and an acting coach. Her wide eyed facial expressions belie her confusions with Dorsey's unusual actions as he tries to conceal his life in drag. Bill Murray as Dorsey's bemused play wright of a roommate gives a witty performance with his occasional wry comments. Murray remains detached throughout the movie as his character tries to humor Dorsey. Rumor has it that Murray improvised...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: On a Roll | 1/5/1983 | See Source »

...wonderfully played by Director Pollack) tells him, "a cult failure." Michael's friends include his playwright-roommate, superbly underacted by Bill Murray, who is so sober about his art that he wants to have a theater that is open only when it rains and a girlfriend, played by Teri Garr, who makes high comedy out of low selfesteem. She is so insecure that when she is asked to describe a part she claims to be wrong for, she replies, "A woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Tootsie on a Roll to the Top | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

...pink sweaterdress, ribbed tights and white plastic cowboy boots. LJN paid Shields, 16, $1 million for the privilege, and she dutifully sat through several modeling sessions while the doll was fashioned. The first versions of the doll did not measure up to the standards of Mother Teri Shields, 48, who rejected one sample because the dimple was missing and the nose, well, it wasn't quite right. Examining a later attempt, Teri complained that the dollmakers had made Brooke a bit too busty. The final product did please the subject. "Wow!" said Brooke. "It really is me." No word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 8, 1982 | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

What you see is pretty blooming spectacular. From the first shot-a long track down a densely designed and populated Vegas street that leads to the travel agency window where Frannie (Teri Garr) looms like Kong over a toy Manhattan skyline-you are advised that One from the Heart means to set reality and artifice into felicitous collision. On the Zoetrope sound stages, Production Designer Dean Tavoularis has created a show-stopping amalgam of razzle and dazzle, sending skyrockets speckling over what looks like a mile-long Strip of surreal glitter. Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro has lighted these sets in gloriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Surrendering to the Big Dream | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

...film, a stylized musical set in Las Vegas on Independence Day, recounts the affairs of a junkyard owner (Frederic Forrest) with two women: a travel agent (Teri Garr) and a circus star (Nastassia Kinski). Coppola calls Heart "a lounge operetta, pretty and sweet. I've made too many gangster and soldier movies. I like fantasy and fable-it's a large part of me." It is also a huge part of the film's budget: Dean Tavoularis' dazzling sets cost more than $6 million to build. The film went $11 million over the original budget, shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Presenting Fearless Francis! | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

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