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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1989
Page
3
Hollywood sources predict a deluge of superhero films after Batman with Spider-Man Plastic Man and the Invisible Man slated for fall shoots. Details sketch quirky character notes including Spider-Man’s loneliness Plastic Man’s sun vulnerability and a controversial Invisible Man casting.
A humorous list features characters like Dodecahedronman and Deodorantman, each spoofing social roles and flaws. The pieces mock high school math homework tyranny, marketing staples, and dating stereotypes, culminating in a satirical portrait of modern urban life and temptations.
A humorous reflection on motherhood and letting go as children grow up. The author recalls nightly dreams of weddings and Nobel prizes, the tension of never finishing parenthood, and the mismatch between parental hopes and kids’ realities.
Two robbers fled in a stolen car after hitting nails laid on the pavement to slow pursuers. The car, with a flat tire, was found two blocks from Mercantile Bank. Witnesses say the men ran across a weeded field with bank money after abandoning the vehicle at a car wash. They wore ski masks and dark jumpsuits during the heist.
Rudolf Nureyev, 51, says he once refused the King of Siam lead in The King and I to protect his dancing. He now accepts the role for a Toronto rehearsal tour of U.S. and Canada, noting he must balance talent with form. In Shall We Dance he will perform steps learned in the Soviet Union. Ewing to appear as a 7 foot Angel of Death in The Exorcist 1990, director Blatty says getting it to screen was not easy.
Blatty began trying to adapt The Exorcist in 1983 and after six years and five deals secured a $2.5 million arrangement to direct the film Le Legion. Erica Jong wed New York attorney Kenneth David Burrows at his Warren Vermont home in a, her third marriage. Jong also authored Fear of Flying Serenissima and poetry. Burrows is a senior partner at Burrows Poster and Franzblau.
LA reports Robert Duvall, star of Lonesome Dove, received a Golden Boot Award from the Motion Picture and Television Fund among 12 honorees for leaving a mark on the Western genre. The ceremony also honored Jimmy Stewart with the Reagan Award. posthumous award went to Andy Devine. Other winners included Johnny Cash Angie Dickinson Robert Mitchum Casey Tibbs and Vera Miles.
MacArthur Foundation awards Theodore Rosengarten a $275000 grant over five years to write books. He historically interviewed Nate Shaw, the last surviving Alabama sharecroppers union member, whose life inspired his acclaimed All Gods Dangers. Rosengarten and his wife move to McClellanville, near Charleston.
Protesters threaten to strip in front of the Government Palace unless authorities reopen Chihuahua’s red light district and its 30 bordellos. Magdalena Aguirre, spokeswoman for the Chihuahua Prostitutes Union, says thousands rely on the district. Officials call the shuttering irreversible. union leaders accuse the move of destroying livelihoods.
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