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- <title>
- (1982) Show Business
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1982 Highlights
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- January 3, 1983
- SHOW BUSINESS
- MOST OF '82
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- <body>
- <p>The Longest Phone Call: E.T.'s desperate message to an area
- code 3 million light-years away, which was followed by millions
- and led to the year's catchiest phrase, "E.T., phone home."
- </p>
- <p>The Loudest Crash: Francis Coppola's One from the Heart, which
- cost $26 million, grossed $1.2 million, and is the undisputed
- winner of this year's Heaven's Gate award.
- </p>
- <p>The Most Grandiose Astronomical Event: The Night of 100 Stars,
- which brought 204 stars to the stage of Radio City Music Hall
- in a benefit for the Actors' Fund, and lasted a numbing 5 1/2
- hours.
- </p>
- <p>The Longest Wait: For NBC, perennially last in the ratings, to
- turn itself around under its new board chairman, Grant Tinker,
- who has sought to succeed with something rarely seen on
- commercial TV: high-quality programming.
- </p>
- <p>The Most Ubiquitous Actor: Sir John Gielgud, 78, who has
- appeared in everything from Gandhi and Brideshead Revisited to
- commercial for New York City's Inter-Continental Hotel and Paul
- Masson wines.
- </p>
- <p>The Reddest Face: That belonging to Ray Stark, who produced,
- and overproduced, the movie version of Annie, which was supposed
- to be a box-office bonanza but barely covered its $52 million
- production and marketing costs.
- </p>
- <p>The Hottest Read: David McClintick's Indecent Exposure, which
- told in absorbing detail the sordid story of the David Begelman
- affair and which all of Hollywood read in Xerox weeks before it
- appeared in print.
- </p>
- <p>The Most Tragic Waste: The senseless death of John Belushi, 33,
- from a drug overdose, which silenced one of the best comic
- talents of his generation.
- </p>
- <p>The Happiest Lady: Raquel Welch, who followed Lauren Bacall as
- Woman of the Year and broke all box-office records at Broadway's
- Palace Theater.
- </p>
- <p>The Longest-Running Show: The British monarchy, which proved,
- with the long-awaited birth of Prince William, the break-in at
- Buckingham Palace and the much publicized escapades of Prince
- Andrew, that the glitter never fades from that sceptered isle.</p>
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