Word: beau
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Home (ABC, Dec. 21), in which the country singer twangs I'll Be Home for Christmas -- and is. Disney's Christmas on Ice (CBS, Dec. 21) brings Mickey and Minnie together with Katarina Witt and Tai Babilonia, while Richard Mulligan plays a small-town eccentric who meets an extraterrestrial (Beau Bridges) in Guess Who's Coming for Christmas? (NBC, Dec. 23). On the classical side, James Galway and Frederica von Stade headline A Lincoln Center Christmas Gala (PBS, Dec. 19). And, of course, A Charlie Brown Christmas is back again (CBS, Dec. 19). It's 25 years for that treacly...
John J. Dunbar (Kevin Costner) is an almost too perfect example of the new American male, that improbable beau ideal who has been created out of recent feminist fantasies and the failure of certain old-fashioned masculine dreams...
...imperious mother, who was herself addicted to diet pills. When Kitty was 18, she learned that her mother had been an adopted child. Within months of this revelation, Kitty too was on diet pills; she sought to escape her mother's influence by marrying a high school beau, despite the "total absence of compatibility." They divorced four years later...
...goes heavily Hollywood -- marquee- worthy directors, proven scriptwriters, a cast of (mostly) stars -- in its rather literal rendering of three modern classics. In Mary McCarthy's The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt (adapted and directed by Frederic Raphael), a radical journalist (Elizabeth McGovern) meets a crass business executive (Beau Bridges) who makes use of his booze and her boredom to lure her into a one- night stand during a transcontinental railroad trip. (Those were the days!) Owlish and pudgy, Bridges is right for his role, but pillow-soft McGovern is wrong for hers. And many of Raphael's arch...