Word: upping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like all stars, she is a packaged commodity; if she stops selling, she gets tossed into the leftover rack. Rydell explores her relationships with Rudge, her grubby English manager (Alan Bates), with her sexist, drugged-up back-up band, and finally, with her voracious audiences. As long as Rose remains...
All too soon, however, fetid personal details of Joplin's own life are brought in and drooled over. The most offensive example exploits her alleged bisexuality. From literally out of nowhere there appears in Rose's dressing room one evening a gorgeous Valkyrie in Junior League pearls and a tastefully...
WHEN THE FILM refrains from digging up dead dirt on a dead woman and concentrates on creating the live persona of Rose, things improve. The entire sequence with Frederic Forrest as an AWOL Army sergeant is enchanting; Midler's gifts as both a comic and serious actress shine as she...
The business-suited crowd that showed up last night for the opening of Boston's first and the nation's largest Wendy's Old-Fashioned Hamburgers were definitely more interested in fast profits than fast food.
"We're not worried about crowds," he said, when one knowledgeable reporter from Fast Food World asked him about bottlenecks at the cash register in a restaurant that expects to deal with hundreds of customers an hour. "If we get swamped, we'll just open up another unit down the...