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...Angeles are on the phone constantly nagging the producer to lobby DiCaprio to wear Puma sandals for a product-placement plug. What makes all this tolerable for DiCaprio and his colleagues is the opportunity to bring The Beach to the screen. It is the story of an aimless traveler named Richard who gets a map leading to a secret beach where a post-hippie community uneasily shares its Eden with treacherous, dope-growing Thai farmers. Some critics described the novel as Lord of the Flies for Generation X. Though it sold a scant 17,000 copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In The Swim Again | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...tale are sympathetic, yet the episode never crackles. The hour that follows focuses on Wally Schirra, leader of the Apollo 7 mission, who is played by Mark Harmon. In an irritating device, Peter Horton is a documentary filmmaker who questions Schirra and others. The result is an aimless string of interviews; Schirra talks more than he acts, and the story has no drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: We Do Not Have Lift-Off | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

...haven't slept since high school." "Oh yeah? Well, I don't even have eyelids." Time, we are told, should be spent doing things that build our minds and our resumes. If we find ourselves in a semester where all we are doing is minimal schoolwork, we feel aimless, identity-less. If we aren't already contributing hundreds of hours to some kind of project, our Superman friends try to bully us into stage-managing their phone-a-thons. Most busy undergrads claim that they enjoy the activities that they pursue instead of sleep. How very convenient. That way, they...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Staring at the Ceiling | 3/17/1998 | See Source »

...tracks before the train is seen. "It'll take years for the numbers to catch up, but attitudinally, this generation is marrying younger," she says. All this cuts against the image pinned on Gen Xers at the start of the decade. The idea was that they were aimless and depressed, but the reality seems to be that they are overprogrammed and extraordinarily stressed. They are the first generation to be scheduled from their earliest play dates; to view school, even grade school, as a ruthless competition; to enter the work force unsure of where they're going but clear enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE YOUNG AND THE NESTED | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...follow from the first day of enlistment to battlefield apotheosis contains many familiar types--supermacho drill sergeant, dopey yokel and, at its center, Johnny (Casper Van Dien, a newcomer with a useful, uncanny resemblance to the old B-picture star John Agar), who is the traditional spoiled and aimless kid. He has--need one say?--joined up for the wrong, selfish reasons, but when his hometown is destroyed, Pearl Harbor-style, he embraces the right, vengeful-idealistic rationales for merciless slaughter and achieves heroism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ALL BUGGED OUT, AGAIN | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

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