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...lose her husband Monk (Danny Aiello) so easily. He is a bruiser who spends his unemployed days pitching pennies with his pals, his nights alternately neglecting or abusing Cecilia. Her life is like a movie, all right, but the wrong kind, the first reel of an old Joan Crawford weeper. But in Cecilia's movie-house refuge, a couple of synapses in her mind clap hands, and her sweet, silly dreams take life. Tom Baxter suddenly starts talking to her from the screen, then hops down off it to escort her out the back door into reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Now Playing At the Jewel the Purple Rose of Cairo | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...room upstairs at the Sheraton was close and smoky, the emotional tone jangly. Here was a weeper, there a grinning josher, and everywhere beer bottles and nervous wives. For the two dozen former Special Forces men jammed into the hotel suite for their reunion, many dressed in fatigues, there had clearly never been a Veterans Day quite like this. "How are the Green Berets different?" piped up former Sergeant Mark Atchison. Tougher? Smarter? No. "We believed it. We tried to win their hearts and minds. We never called 'em 'gooks.' " An instant later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Homecoming at Last | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

Sophomore Debbie Field will also move back to the position of a weeper, a spot she left for the midfield after suffering an injury in Harvard's 4-4 tie with B.C. Consequently, Inga Larson will move from sweeper back to the midfield...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Booters Open NCAA Tourney | 11/5/1982 | See Source »

YOUNG AND RESTLESS suds stars David Hasselhoff and Wings Hauser, who play the Foster Brothers on the daytime weeper, have formed their own rock group called, yep, the Foster Brothers. Hasselhoff is the singer, Hauser the writer and player of guitar and keyboards (he had an RCA album in 1977 titled Wings Hauser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: & OUT THE OTHER | 10/16/1980 | See Source »

...their domestic life. John's premarital flings with other women (including a French floozy who seems to have stepped out of Irma La Douce) get more screen time than the Ervin hearings. The Deans' bouts with alcohol are presented with the florid excess of an old Hollywood weeper like /'// Cry Tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: John and Mo Fight Watergate | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

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