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...Frogs opens on Dionysus and her servant, Xanthias, planning to depart for Hades. Depressed by an apathetic world, in Aristophanes' original they wish to bring back the playwright Euripides to wake the world with witty satire. Once in the underworld Dionysus realizes that the true artist. Aeschylus, can contribute much more passion and poetry than the humorist and decides that he will save the world by returning this writer to life. The modernized version replaces Euripides with George Bernard Shaw, and Aeschylus with William Shakespeare. But Sheevelove sticks closely to the rest of Aristophanes' script; even the scatological jokes...

Author: By Clea Simon, | Title: Frogs on Exhibit | 4/20/1982 | See Source »

...Guttenberg) is ready to get married, with few qualms and one small condition: that his fiancee pass the world's toughest football quiz. Boogie (Mickey Rourke) will never be married: he has too much fun playing the sensitive stud and limping through life with one foot in the underworld. Fenwick (Kevin Bacon) is beyond marriage: proto-hip and self-destructive, he seems to be waiting for the '60s to explode around him. Billy (Timothy Daly) wants to get married-but his pregnant girlfriend is more intent on a career in television. It may take Billy the better part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Five Friends | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

...evening paper and you will not see a young couple walk through a "Japanese garden" filled with blank-faced nisei standing in planters. Raid the fridge and you will miss the visit Sergeant-Lieut. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) pays to a shoeshine wizard who knows everything about the Underworld-and about life after death, open-heart surgery and the fate of the Dodgers' pitching staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Deftly Dippy | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

...directed such Broadway hits as Clash by Night (1941), The Big Knife (1949) and the Pulitzer-prizewinning Men in White (1933). After coaching and directing for 38 years, he resumed his acting career in 1974, when he made his movie debut in Godfather II. His portrayal of an aging underworld boss won him an Oscar nomination. Strasberg subsequently appeared in And Justice for All and Going in Style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 1, 1982 | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

Martin ignored a subpoena to appear before a grand jury on Aug. 11, and then hatched a more outlandish version of what had happened: a black-masked member of "the Guardian Angels of the Underworld" had carried out the ambush to prevent him from exposing the satanic cult. On Aug. 17, Martin ducked another grand jury appearance-for his own safety, he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas Tale | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

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