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- January 7, 1985SHOW BUSINESSMOST OF '84
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- LOUDEST WHISTLING IN THE DARK: Jane Fonda, Linda Evans and
- Joan Collins being glad they're over 40.
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- 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.
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- MOST MISSABLE MILESTONES: Paul Simon and Carrie Fisher's
- fleeting marriage, Elizabeth Taylor's upcoming marriage, Farrah
- Fawcett's lack of marriage.
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- MOST OVERREPORTED EDUCATION STORY: Brooke Shields' report cards
- from Princeton.
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- MOST PUBLIC-SPIRITED NETWORK: ABC, which interrupted its
- coverage of the Democratic National Convention to show a rerun
- of Hart to Hart.
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- MOST TEDIOUS SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION: Phil Donahue's move to
- New York City, Vanessa Williams' future plans, Cristina De
- Lorean's courtroom wardrobe.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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