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...people who will be addressing the audience, Judith Tucker is one, Ms. Tucker, who is a professor at Simmons College, recently caused something of a stir at her school when she gave a presentation on Lebanon. Invited to give a brief talk on the Lebanese situation, she instead gave a half hour showing of war slides which she followed up with an address in which she described the PLO as "a humanitarian organization" working to better the lives of the Lebanese people...
...York Knicks signed Minnesota guard Trent Tucker, their first-round draft choice, yesterday...
...main character in I Ought to be in Pictures is once again the tough kid with a heart of gold--a more mature version of The Goodbye Girl's Quinn Cummings. Nineteen-year-old Libby Tucker (Dinah Manoff) decides to embark on an odyssey from Brooklyn to California, to find her screenwriter father who abandoned her 16 years earlier. She hopes to use his help to start--surprise, surprise--a career in show business. But Herb, her father, is not the successful writer she had expected and the road to riches is difficult. This opening sequence adequately conveys the disillusionment...
...picture, Libby says that she's going to Hollywood to become an actress and improve "the crap they've been putting out lately." Unfortunately, I Ought to be in Pictures is hardly an improvement. One can't resist drawing comparisons between Simon and the character of Herb Tucker, who is also a screenwriter who hasn't written a successful work for a number of years. If Simon continues with the same overused storylines, ignoring realistic character development, then he may become just as stale as the character he has created. In the final analysis, there may be more irony...
Harvard fought back to within seven with five minutes left to play before Rice coach Linda Tucker called time out. Whatever she said must have fired the Owls up--they came out and shut the Crimson down, rebuilding and 15-point winning margin...