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...Yardbirds (plagiarized from Johnny Burnett and His Rock and Roll Trio's "Train Kept A-Rollin'"; the Yardbirds' performance in Antonioni's "Blow Up" is the one that changed the course of human events) 9. Cherry Cherry Coupe - Brian Wilson and Roger Christian 10. I'll Be Around - Alec Wilder (performed by Sinatra; the one my wife calls "the stalker song": "I'll be around/no matter how/you treat me now/I'll be around from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All-Time Top Ten: The Readers Give Us an Earful | 7/13/2000 | See Source »

...meant to be an entertainment," says Robert Jackson (Alec Baldwin), leader of the prosecution in the 1945 trial of Nazi officers at Nuremberg. "It's meant to be a trial." But in this mini-series, written by David W. Rintels and directed by Yves Simoneau, instruction and entertainment make a pretty good match. Baldwin nicely tamps down his natural charisma to get at a good man's frustration in abiding by the stern moral rules that he set for the tribunal. In melodrama, of course, the villains always win; they're the ones who get to strut. Thus Brian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuremberg, TNT, Sunday-Monday, 8 p.m. E.T. | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...actor was virtually born one: great-nephew of actress Ellen Terry and second cousin of designer Gordon Craig. By 21, in Chekhov and Coward, he was a London fixture. He directed and starred in the renowned 1935 Romeo and Juliet (the cast included Peggy Ashcroft, Edith Evans and Alec Guinness), advancing Olivier's career by swapping roles (Romeo and Mercutio) in mid-run. Later he championed bold young playwrights, directing Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, starring in Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning, Edward Albee's Tiny Alice and Edward Bond's Bingo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Night, Sweet Prince: ARTHUR JOHN GIELGUD (1904-2000) | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...nook and cranny of your body. But the truth is that CT scans, like MRIS, ultrasounds or other types of medical imaging, still require interpretation by radiologists who have trained for at least six years to figure out what those patches of light and dark mean. Otherwise, as Dr. Alec Megibow of New York University puts it, "we would have all been replaced by computers long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scan or Scam? | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

...Next came T.J. and Drake, our bosses. You may remember them. T.J. wore Sambas and grumbled a lot. Drake could produce an Alec Baldwin five o'clock shadow anytime he wanted. He had a girlfriend who liked salads and literature. Bennettoids have been spotted spawning in the Leverett Dining Hall. All points bulletin for pearls girls with posture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Groovy Train | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

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