Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...news that the censors will not let them report. But soon there is terrorism in Saigon's streets, a terrorist in Adrian's life, even terror in his heart when a reportorial mission in the field goes awry. Both compassion and panic invade his routines. Director Barry Levinson (Diner, Tin Men) has always been good at wiring comic asides to a delay fuse, but this entire movie works on that principle. You may be out on the sidewalk before you realize that these are not just broadcasters. They represent the confused voices of all America registering shock as solid- seeming...
Levinson is best known for hissemi-autobiographical comedy-dramas "Diner" and"Tin Men," and "The Natural. The screenplay for"Good Morning, Vietnam" was written by formerM*A*S*H screenwriter Mitch Markowitz...
...Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming. We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming. Four dead in Ohio...
...shoot every bloody cow and rancher I came across. I thought unless we got rid of them, the whole world would become desert. But that kind of solution was wrong and counterproductive. Simplicity is the only thing I defend. I'd like to live with just a tin plate, a knife and a rifle in the African bush . . . knowing that the earth and all the watersheds were healing . . . I could die happy then...
Hollywood has had dog years before. True, Rin Tin Tin kept Warner Bros. from going broke in the '20s, and Lassie was one of MGM's biggest money earners in the '40s. But now, it seems, nearly every movie, TV series or commercial has another of man's best friends wagging and barking away. Among the other rising dog stars of 1987 are Grendel, the yuppie puppy on ABC's family drama thirtysomething, and Bo, the German shepherd-husky half-breed of Summer School...