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...real name is Kevin Costner, and this backseat sizzler with Sean Young from the hit political thriller No Way Out has people lining up at movie theaters across the country. With a startlingly different look as the intrepid crime crusader Eliot Ness, Costner is also drawing crowds to The Untouchables. < These bookend summer successes have cinched his status as Hollywood's new romantic leading man. With his tall, rangy good looks and cool American strength, Costner, 32, is an old-fashioned movie hero. Like such stars as Gary Cooper, Clark Gable and Jimmy Stewart, he can fill the screen with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hollywood Rediscovers Romance | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

...investigate a murder committed by his boss, the Secretary of Defense (Gene Hackman, his honest face at odds with his twisted soul), but for which the officer is the prime suspect. Costner and the victim- to-be (gorgeous Sean Young) play a romping, stomping love scene in the backseat of a limousine as if no one had ever heard about sexually communicable diseases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hot Films, Unhappy Endings | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

Walton's hobbies always take a backseat to his company. He plays a fine game of tennis, but he reportedly can be easily distracted by canny opponents who bring up the topic of Wal-Mart. Another favorite pastime is quail hunting; Walton often takes his two pointer dogs along with him on his business trips in case any opportunities arise. His only obvious material luxury is a twin- engine Cessna, which he frequently pilots on his constant travels from store to store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Make That Sale, Mr. Sam Wal-Mart's | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

Education Department officials say that in an era of constricted fiscal resources, what the always entertaining Bennett has labeled "our greedy colleges" should take a backseat to funds to strengthen primary and secondary schools. Administration officials also maintain that since students who receive college degrees almost certainly will make more money than those who don't, there is no need to shed tears for students who take out loans to pay for college...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Follow the House | 4/15/1987 | See Source »

...country performers in particular are completely overdrawn. None is allowed to develop a personality and after initially exchanging remarks like "six packs of tears," "backseat of the pickup truck of love," and "rhinestone cowprod" can find little else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bye Bye, Bye Bye Verdi | 2/25/1987 | See Source »

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