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...ever receptive Hard Copy. In it Simpson disputes the police version of events on the night of the murders--denying, for example, that he bumped into the air-conditioning unit outside his house, as prosecutor Marcia Clark theorized. "I've lived in this house 17 years," he says. "There ain't no way I'm going to run into an air conditioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TESTIFYING FOR DOLLARS | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

...toward them. Waiting to Exhale doesn't have the idiot vigor to become a camp classic like the movie Valley of the Dolls. Forest Whitaker, a laid-back actor who directs this slow-fuse movie, lets his divas strut, smolder and tell off the skunks they once loved. This ain't art--it's more like tasty junk food. And Bassett provides the special sauce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: EXHALING SUDS | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...women to the railroad tracks of caprice and invites us to watch as a betraying beau comes chugging toward them. But Waiting to Exhale doesn't have the idiot vigor to become a camp classic like the movie Valley of the Dolls, says TIME's Richard Corliss. "This ain't art -- it's more like tasty junk food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES . . . WAITING TO EXHALE | 12/29/1995 | See Source »

...Hollywood. But in 1995 many of them found moral instruction, even art, in mindlessly pessimistic tripe--grotty little films about how rotten life is. If it wasn't the self-destructive singer in Georgia, it was a moony, whiny Priest or some horny, joyless Kids. Cheer up, folks; life ain't that bad. Only movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of 1995: CINEMA | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

EVERY TIME I SEE A FAVORITE WOODLAND area laid waste for yet another shopping mall, I gnash my teeth and think, Well, I have just lived too long and become a moss-backed old grump. But by jingo, it ain't true! Your Hubble space photos have put the wonderment back into my life! What's a little more concrete on an obscure planet circling a minor star compared to the crushing and splendiferous grandeur of all that's going on out there? WALTER MITCHELL JR. Dunwoody, Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1995 | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

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