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<text id=93HT0663>
<title>
1984: Show Business
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1984 Highlights
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
January 7, 1985
SHOW BUSINESS
MOST OF '84
</hdr>
<body>
<p>BIGGEST NAME: Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is 6 ft. 2 in. and 20
letters long, and who flexed his box office in Conan the
Destroyer and The Terminator.
</p>
<p>LEAST CONGENIAL COUPLES: Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton
in Rhinestone; Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep in Falling in
Love; Producer Robert Evans and Director Francis Coppola on The
Cotton Club.
</p>
<p>LOUDEST WHISTLING IN THE DARK: Jane Fonda, Linda Evans and
Joan Collins being glad they're over 40.
</p>
<p>MOST GRIEVOUS OVERSIGHT: The Tony Award snub to Death of a
Salesman, which got but one nomination--some say to punish
Star Dustin Hoffman for feuding with producers.
</p>
<p>MOST MISSABLE MILESTONES: Paul Simon and Carrie Fisher's
fleeting marriage, Elizabeth Taylor's upcoming marriage, Farrah
Fawcett's lack of marriage.
</p>
<p>MOST OVERREPORTED EDUCATION STORY: Brooke Shields' report cards
from Princeton.
</p>
<p>MOST PUBLIC-SPIRITED NETWORK: ABC, which interrupted its
coverage of the Democratic National Convention to show a rerun
of Hart to Hart.
</p>
<p>MOST TEDIOUS SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION: Phil Donahue's move to
New York City, Vanessa Williams' future plans, Cristina De
Lorean's courtroom wardrobe.
</p>
<p>SNAPPIEST SALUTE: The box-office success of A Soldier's Story,
which once more proved that a broad audience exists for a
serious film with black actors.
</p>
<p>STORMIEST "VICTORY" AT SEA: The Jacksons, including
Megabrother Michael, running into heavy weather with press and
promoters as they concertized en famille for the final time.</p>
</body>
</article>
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