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...band that takes its first name from the villain in the TV show "Lidsville" and titles its latest album after the worst film of 1965 has a practiced taste for irreverence, and that's what the Hoodoo Gurus plied Friday night at their Boston appearance...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: Gurus From Down Under | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

MARILYN MONROE is a goddess. Albert Einstein is a genius. Joe DiMaggio is a hero. Joseph McCarthy is a villain...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Odd Couple | 9/20/1985 | See Source »

...every Spielberg "family" film since Close Encounters, the mother figure is the repository of strength and common sense; Dad is either absent or a bit vague, less in touch with the forces of wonder. As described by Steven, Arnold was neither a hero nor a villain, but a hardworking perfectionist. "Steven's love and mastery of technology definitely come from our father," says Steven's sister Sue, 31, a mother of two who lives outside Washington. "Mom was a classical pianist, artistic and whimsical. She led the way for Steven to be as creative as he wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: I Dream for a Living | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...14th James Bond film and the seventh to star Roger | Moore. The opening thrill sequence is once again a ski chase. The most exotic (or should one say grotesque?) of his several love interests (or should one say sex objects?) is the black pantheresque model, Grace Jones. The villain, joylessly played by Christopher Walken, this time schemes improbably to blast open the San Andreas Fault, wiping out Silicon Valley so that he can corner the microchip market. If the picture did not carry the credits of Writers Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson and Director John Glen, one would suspect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes a View to a Kill | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

While Hoppenstein--an unlikely villain at best--shared wine and cheese in the Lowell Junior Common Room, crowds outside grew larger and more hostile. When Harvard police refused to allow any people into the JCR, the group crammed into the small foyer separating the JCR from the Lowell House dining room. Harvard police, with Hoppenstein in low, finally burst through the crowd to take the diplomat to a waiting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Closed-Door Provocation | 5/8/1985 | See Source »

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