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Hill Street Blues (NBC). Probing the soul of the inner-city cop with compassion and flipped-out wit, Hill Street won critical raves, eight Emmys and-finally!-enough viewers to make...
Jake is writing a book about "the moral and ethical disintegration of the American dream," and Grownups seems shackled to that thesis. For few explicable reasons, Jake and Louise crush each other in a rockslide of a marital spat that rivals the venom but not the wit of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?ln an explosive but faintly ludicrous finale, all the family pieties are blasted and blasphemed...
Ordinarily one tends to suspect movies that veer too radically from the intent of their original sources. But Whose Life remains true to the highest purpose of the play: to set forth with honesty, passion and wit the arguments for and against euthanasia. That one so intensely wants the Dreyfuss character to change his mind is a tribute to the actor's unquenchable vitality, and for many it may make the film more poignant. Who can doubt that it is more touching-and discomfiting-to see a man commit a good and valuable spirit to a wrong cause than...
...Woodland Hills, Calif. Von Zell started his career in 1927 as a singer for a small California station. As a CBS announcer, he achieved notoriety when he introduced President Herbert Hoover as "Hoobert Heever." Von Zell was a commentator on early March of Time programs and his quick wit won him roles on the radio shows of Will Rogers, Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor and Ed Wynn...
...blood between its pages, Fear Itself is a celebration of life. Kanfer, Books editor of TIME and author of The Eighth Sin, a 1978 novel about Nazi efforts to exterminate gypsies, writes with wit, subtlety and passion. Not all the ire is directed at the death-camp butchers. In passages as sardonic as any ever written about war-bloated Hollywood, Kanfer describes the unconcern of some successful American Jews for their doomed brethren in Europe. It is a part of the terrible secret that Fear Itself embodies in an exciting work of fiction...