Word: turner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Marcia M. Turner '97 is spending her summer preparing to head to Atlantic City, N.J. But she's hardly practicing blackjack...
DIED. LANA TURNER, 75, movie star; in Los Angeles. It was in her big-screen debut in 1937 that Turner first strode across the screen in a form-following sweater. The film's title: They Won't Forget. And they didn't. The "sweater girl" simmered through three decades of movies, mostly for MGM, which was the ideal studio for her high-wattage glamour. Aglow in white shorts, white top, white turban and acres of bare flesh for The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), she bedazzled John Garfield into murder; in Johnny Eager (1942), she helped Robert Taylor live...
...industry doesn't lack for well-meaning people. Terri Tingle, the executive producer of TBS's Feed Your Mind!, says, "At Turner Broadcasting, we do more than most industries do. We really feel that serving children is an important part of our job." Geraldine Laybourne, president of Nickelodeon, the innovative children's cable channel, isn't shy about tooting her network's horn: "It would be dishonest of me not to say that I think we helped change the landscape of children's television." True, but the landscape even on Nickelodeon is mixed. Doug is sweet, but Rugrats is frightening...
...heartening news for young actors with goatees who have always dreamed of playing Shaggy, Turner Pictures is working on a live action screen version of Scooby Doo. No actors (or dogs) have been signed, but a script is definitely in the works. Does Marmaduke know...
Both could be correct, at least politically, and still miss the main point. Yes, the Indians are very nice people here, which is a nice thing. And yes, the real Pocahontas probably didn't have Tina Turner's posture and Iman's neck. She probably didn't sing Broadway-style songs either or talk to a clever raccoon and a persnickety hummingbird. Maybe John Smith didn't look like Fabio and sound like Mel Gibson (who speaks the role). But this is a movie-a cartoon, for goodness' sake! It is a boy-meets-girl, boy-gets-girl, boy-loses...