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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1980
Page
5
A reader recounts a TV shopping overload skit with a persistent sales voice offering gadgets and kitchenware during a program. The segment also notes Nielsen ratings showing The Jeffersons as the week's top program with 15.8 million homes watching.
Heat drives readers indoors as the Aiken County Public Library highlights new titles. Frank Norman’s The Dead Butler Caper stars Cockney sleuth Ed Nelson while Samuel Shaffer’s On and Off the Floor profiles Capitol Hill figures. Other books include Are You Anybody by Marilyn Funt and The Sky's the Limit by Wendy Brose.
Beaufort along the riverfront unveils Henry C. Chambers Park an eight acre site with marina bulkhead pavilion amphitheater and playground on Bay Street. The project aims to draw families fishers and visitors with markets civic events and ocean breezes in this historic town founded in 1711.
A contemporary review likens The Blue Lagoon to a Tarzan style survival romance set in the late 1800s. Emmeline and Richard are shipwreck survivors who grow up together on a tropical island and navigate forbidden love amid perilous jungle dangers. The piece notes the film's sensual approach and contrasts it with classic Tarzan, while also mentioning other releases like The Empire Strikes Back and The Shining.
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