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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program has virtually invented a new TV genre. Two sets of clones are currently trying (mostly in vain) to match their success: Rex Reed and Bill Harris on At the Movies; Jeffrey Lyons and Michael Medved on Sneak Previews. Meanwhile, Siskel and Ebert are frequent guests on the Tonight show and have mock-settled their differences in a basketball-shooting contest on Late Night with David Letterman. Movies now even make fun of them: in Hollywood Shuffle, two streetwise blacks review movies in a takeoff called Sneakin' in the Movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: It Stinks! You're Crazy! | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...eagerness with which the nation embraced the scandal is simultaneously understandable and troubling. The quest for keyhole glimpses of presidential candidates can be seen as merely the final step in a celebrity process that reduces political discourse to the level of Entertainment Tonight. As the line between movie stars and political figures has become blurred, Americans now demand the same intimate knowledge about their leaders that once was reserved for the romantic entanglements of Clark Gable or Elizabeth Taylor. Rather than wrestling with the complexities of arms control and a troubled economy, the public tends to look for personalities they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall from Grace | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...Tonight's speakers will include the councilors presently endorsed by the CCA, who are Saundra Graham, Frank Duehay '55, David Sullivan, and Alice Wolf...

Author: By James Hare, | Title: Civic Association to Hold Open Candidate Forum | 5/13/1987 | See Source »

...reward after the show. As I stood smoking a cigarette and watching the people file out, a friend from the audience came up and shook my hand. "You know," he said, "I've seen you do good work in other shows, but you were absolutely dead on stage tonight...

Author: By Richard Murphy, | Title: Chiller Theater | 5/13/1987 | See Source »

Candidates for Cambridge municipal offices will speak tonight in a public forum at the Holy Trinity Armenian Church in an effort to gain endorsements from the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) for the 1987 city elections...

Author: By James Hare, | Title: Civic Association to Hold Open Candidate Forum | 5/13/1987 | See Source »

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