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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the actors in Nothing On are so temperamental that the audience laughs as Dallas struggles hopelessly to take charge of his company. Sara Melson, who plays Brooke Ashton, who plays bimbo Vicki, stands out as the stereotypical half-brain-dead sexpot actress. Melson's over-exaggerated hand gestures, when she is Vicki, and her overly self-conscious, seductive walk as Brooke are amusing...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: And on the Eighth Day, God Took His Valium | 11/17/1989 | See Source »

Barrett's support could help defeat the proposition because "he's popular [and] people have a lot of respect for him," said Vicki Lewis, a spokesperson for the Committee to Defeat Proposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barrett Urges Constituents To Vote Against Prop 1-2-3 | 10/17/1989 | See Source »

...their toll, Boris Yeltsin, 58, the former Moscow party boss who has achieved unusual visibility and enormous popularity as one of Mikhail Gorbachev's most acerbic critics, still impressed Americans with his charm and appreciation of the U.S. His knack for an ingratiating riposte was apparent at John and Vicki Hardin's hog farm in Danville, Ind. "Would Mr. Yeltsin like to see some pigs?" the host asked. "I'd prefer to see some Americans," Yeltsin cracked, "but pigs will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming To America | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

Anyone can take pleasure in the matching of Keaton and Nicholson, their dueling eyebrows poised like crossed swords. And Keaton does locate the troubled human inside Batman's armature. He is amusingly awkward wrestling with the threat that Vicki's inquisitive love represents. He knows the world is not quite worth saving, and yet, "It's just something I have to do," he says, "because nobody else can." Same with Nicholson. Who else could play the Joker? He has a patent on satanic majesty. His performance is high, soaring, gamy. He is as good, and as evil, as the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Murk in The Myth | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...Jack emerges as the Joker and leads a crime wave, concocting a formula to be injected into cosmetics that twists the victim's face into the Joker's awful leer. Soon Gotham is a city of the grinning dead, and only Batman can revive it, with the help of Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger), frontline photojournalist and all-time fabulous babe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Caped Crusader Flies Again | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

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