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...that wavers somewhere between woe and wonder, "the movies happened-boom! boom! boom!" American Graffiti led to The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, which led to Jaws-which led to the beginning of a breakdown. The movie was just a big fish story, says Dreyfuss, and he "felt like a whore" acting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hollywood's Flying Object | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...party's guests, explaining why they came, reflected a variety of attitudes towards prostitution. There was an investment counselor from the North Shore who said he wanted to know "what makes a woman want to be a whore and why would she join a union," as well as an attractive, refined Boston University student who unashamedly stated, "I have been a prostitute since...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: The Oldest Profession Organizes | 11/16/1977 | See Source »

...matter of social realities and society's perceptions. A male actor can fly a plane, fight a war, shoot a badman, pull off a sting, impersonate a big cheese in business or politics. Men are presumed to be interesting. A female can play a wife, play a whore, get pregnant, lose her baby, and, um, let's see ... Women are presumed to be dull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love, Death and La - De - Dah | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

Pryor's hostility toward white society can be traced back to Peoria, 111., where he grew up. He likes to say that his grandmother was the madam of a whore house and that from the beginning he saw white men debasing black women. He may be telling the truth, but no one in Peoria remembers, and the street where his grandmother lived has been blasted away by urban renewal. What is certainly true is that Pryor, now 36, grew up in a poor and broken family. By 14 he had quit school and started work as a janitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A New Black Superstar | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

Consider the plot. The girl Anna (Ullmann), casually abandoned by her drink-sodden seagoing father (Robert Donley), is seduced by a teen-age lout. Via instant replay she becomes a whore. Ill (the wages of sin), she returns to her father's barge. There she meets the Irish stoker Mat Burke, who is played by John Lithgow like a brain-numbed victim of killer bees. Naturally, these two crippled creatures fall in love. Anna confesses her past. Since Mat is a pre-ecumenical Roman Catholic, he is appalled that he has fallen for an unclean woman. But she tells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Liv in Limbo | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

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