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...have this right: Sean Connery is a cute medieval dragon who breaks into Alcatraz. Psycho groupie Robert De Niro tracks Flipper all the way to Alaska. Schwarzenegger takes the Brady Bunch into Witness Protection. Danny DeVito and Shaquille O'Neal--twins! Bill Murray goes bowling with his pet elephant. A tornado spits a giant spaceship onto the White House lawn and out steps the most destructive alien force the world has ever known: Jim Carrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SUDDENLY THIS SUMMER | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...ROCK (June 7). Connery, visible this time and wearing his full toupee, is a hermit con who helps hip-geeky Nicolas Cage storm Alcatraz to prevent some bad guys from doing really bad things. The trailer makes it look like another exercise in chatty machismo from the Simpson-Bruckheimer team (Crimson Tide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SUDDENLY THIS SUMMER | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...slaughter was swift and sure. After prisoners at Serkadji, Algiers' Alcatraz, used sharpened metal bed slats to slit the throats of four guards and attempted a mass escape, government security forces--the Ninjas, as they are called--swept into the prison. When they were done with their work, at least 96 inmates, most of them Muslim militants, lay dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: THE PRISON OF BLOOD | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

Instead, we have Alcatraz on the Charles. The gates to the Houses will be locked shut, and only those with IDs and their registered guests will be allowed inside. Parties are banned, kegs are banned, and roving teams of enforcers will wander the Square in case a drop of the demon Rolling Rock should escape...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Head O'Charles | 10/22/1994 | See Source »

...Saturday Night at the Movies: Bird Man of Alcatraz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monitor: Three Days of Peace, Music and Hee Haw | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

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