Word: tuckered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Weeks at Don Rickles' Summer Camp. In Gimme a Break (NBC, Thursdays at 9:30 p.m.), Lara Jill Miller, 14, proclaims, to laughter and applause from the studio audience: "I hate dresses. They show off your boobs." Lara, a midget Sophie Tucker in corduroys, seems destined to head her own Vegas lounge act. So surrender: send her to Rickles' camp and leave her there...
During the question session, Tucker expressed concern about recent pacifist developments in Western Europe. He called the decision to deploy new American nuclear missiles in Europe a great error, adding that conventional forces would have been just as effective and less threatening to Europeans...