Word: wagnerism
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...every tiny comic detail of insipid domestic life. Unfortunately, Shrinking Woman--in its last half hour--reneges on its tacit deal with the audience, degenerating from incisive social satire to the silly comedy-adventure shenanigans of a Gene Wilder--Richard Pryor movie. Director Joel Schumacher and scriptwriter Jane Wagner let the film slowly slide into the quicksand of banality, and they rely on the immeasurable talents of their star to keep Shrinking Woman's head above the slime...
ABBADO HAS A WEAKNESS for airy tunes played on glockenspiel and celesta. The tunes come and go between martial rhythms. Young Gustav, fascinated by the military, could never quite part with his recollections of parading soldiers. The march was to Mahler what the Ring of the Nibelung was to Wagner...
...easy being a bombshell on a battlefield. While filming High Risk, in which she plays a dizzy drug runner on the lam from a Mexican jail, Lindsay Wagner was repeatedly pelted and singed by bullets and shells. "I got third-degree burns from a machine gun," she groans, "and no matter what I did, the shells kept bouncing off me. The men in those sequences had jackets, boots and dungarees, while my body was exposed in this off-the-shoulder blouse and a sack skirt." Wagner was comforted somewhat by a cuddly black panther cub, one of her costars...
Most relieved, of course, were the principal targets of the investigation, Producers Aaron Spelling, 52, and Leonard Goldberg, 46. The two had been accused of trying to cheat investors in ABC's Charlie's Angels, chiefly Actor Robert Wagner, 50, and his actress-wife Natalie Wood, 42, by siphoning off at least $660,000 of Angels 'profits to Starsky and Hutch, a show that the producers owned a larger percentage of. Only slightly less elated were executives at ABC who had approved the transfer of funds and ABC President Elton Rule, 63, a close friend...
...another deal announced yesterday, Texas traded pitcher Kevin Saucier for Detroit's Mark Wagner, an infielder...