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...enough it will give up all its secrets"; "I replenish myself by giving, and it comes back"). Easygoing and exuberant, he is a sharp contrast to Johnson, who is described as meticulous and demanding on the set. "We're like night and day," says Thomas. "Don's like a truck driver, and I'm like an angel that sits up there and watches over everything. Don is real intense; I'm more intuitive. He maps out the way he wants to go. I just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Cool Cops, Hot Show | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...will be black, one will be silver. You will not get a red one or a brown one. Michael knows how things are going to look on camera. A lot of it is very basic stuff that has never been applied to TV. For example, Michael carried a water truck around with him on his movie Thief, watering the streets down. So I decided to water the streets at night in my episode of Miami Vice. You get a different look, a beautiful reflection of moonlight off the pavement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Cool Cops, Hot Show | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...Folks, this is Pearl," boomed the familiar voice after Amtrak's Chicago-to-New York train collided last week in the middle of the night with a stalled truck and derailed near Mansfield, Ohio. The unofficial conductor was Pearl Bailey, 67, traveling to Manhattan to chair the opening of the 1985 Christmas Seal ceremonies. Talking through a loudspeaker, the veteran singer soothed jangled nerves among the 425 passengers. After two more days of traveling, Bailey hit a traffic jam outside New York City. Christmas Seal officials who had spotted Dolly Parton, 39, having lunch asked her to stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 9, 1985 | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

Forget Pac-Man. The latest pastime is more explosive than any video game. For only $10, housewives, accountants or truck drivers at the Bullet Stop in suburban Atlanta rent automatic weapons like UZI submachine guns and blast away with live ammo ($10.75 to $12.75 per box of 50 shells) on twelve carefully supervised shooting lanes. The targets: old bowling pins and combat-training silhouettes. "We get a lot of Rambo types," says Owner Paul LaVista, 38. "But mostly attorneys, airline pilots and doctors. They're big-time spenders." LaVista, who is working on franchising his smashing idea, claims that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Odds & Trends: Sep. 2, 1985 | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...workers most in demand since the 1970s have been secretaries. In the next ten years, the economy will need 800,000 custodians and 425,000 truck drivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snapshot of a Changing America | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

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