Word: turneritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gonna: Kathleen Turner, Peggy Sue Got Married. It was an okay performance in a terrible movie, but Sissy Spacek has already won, Marlee Matlin has a funny name, and nobody wants to hear Jane Fonda give a speech about her new political work-out video, Sandinista's Aerobicising Against Apartheid...
WANNA: MELANIE Griffith, Something Wild. It's ironic that the Academy will honor Kathleen Turner for a performance Melanie Griffith performed better. In both movies a woman's world is turned upside down when she attends her high school reunion. Only in Something Wild the world is our world, whereas the world of Peggy Sue is, err, Somewhere Over The Rainbow...
...week voted unanimously to adopt merger guidelines that are stricter than those used by the Justice Department. Many states may now try to block some deals, no matter what the Federal Government says. Still, any legislation and legal action to curb megadeals will take time. Until then, says Wallace Turner, a broker at Manhattan-based Smith Barney, "takeover plays are alive and well." And plenty of stockbrokers, investors, traders and dealmakers intend to get in on the action while it lasts...
...Turner once sent Moammar Khadaffy 200 pepperoni pizzas...
...Turner is pen-pals with Richard Nixon...