Word: topper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come to fancy himself a killer, and that is the role he tries to play here: a psychopathic hit man. He is not a good enough actor for this particular assignment, nor has he the skill as writer and director to use cold-blooded murder (three times) as the topper for gag sequences. Once or twice his former sweet hipness glimmers through, and he has written a funny bit for his pal Arsenio Hall, playing a man on a murderous crying jag. But mostly Harlem Nights offers a depressing answer to that not entirely pressing question, "Will success spoil Eddie...
Hold the Chablis. The belated telephone call may have been the topper, but Dukakis has failed to connect with Jesse Jackson on more mundane matters. At a dinner on July 4, the Governor served poached salmon and California Chablis. Jackson prefers his fish fried and lemonade to drink...
With one out in the fourth, Surhoff got the first hit off Hurst by beating out a slow topper to the left of the mound for a single. The only other hits off Hurst were doubles by Paul Molitor and Greg Brock and a single by Steve Kiefer...
...Burton (Pee-Wee's Big Adventure) has some poignant points to make about, well, life: that the dead must teach the living to savor it. Mostly, though, he wants to give good fun, to turn Winter River into West Eastwick, to ransack pop culture for references to everything from Topper to Tiny Alice. And to give Michael Keaton the chance to run productively wild. Keaton's Beetlejuice is a deliciously loathsome creature, whether shouting insults, lunching on insects or, in the film's climactic wedding scene, pulling a ring off a severed, shriveled finger and muttering to his bride...
...dining room. Next he tried to break into show business. A few painful years of struggle -- scraping up auditions that led to more auditions, writing and rewriting a show that never got staged because the producer died, going out to Hollywood to write scripts for the TV sitcom Topper -- ended in triumph when his lyrics for West Side Story established...