Word: bodyguard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Warner Bros. movie on his life), Lech Walesa is going back to the shipyard. The former Polish President has moved to Gdansk, and intends to return to his old place of employment. If he's really lucky, he may earn almost as much as his state-supplied bodyguard...
...with is lacking, so are most performances. "I closed my eyes," says Whitney Houston's character, Savannah, "And I exhaled." But Houston's performance lacks destination, so this epiphanic experience doesn't ring true. Houston has some good songs on the soundtrack, but after her wretched performance in "The Bodyguard," it's surprising to see her in a leading role again. She simply doesn't have the depth to sustain a performance any longer than a music video...
EVEN BEFORE HER ROLE OPPOsite Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard made her a movie star, there was something cinematic about Whitney Houston. Her life has been big time and big screen. The daughter of gospel and R.-and-B. singer Cissy Houston, she began at the top with her 1985 debut album, Whitney Houston, and has sold 80 million records worldwide since. Her sweet lyrics (Didn't We Almost Have It All) recall the classic romances of Hollywood in the 1940s; her adventurous vocals (in songs like her majestic megahit I Will Always Love You) have the grandiosity...
...Contact Sport), it's an unseemly mismatch, like Grant Hill dunking on a fifth-grader. But when Houston takes on a tune worthy of her gifts (like You Give Good Love), the result is something winged, almost seraphic. What's more, with the huge success of 1992's The Bodyguard--the movie made more than $400 million at the box office worldwide, while the sound track sold 33 million copies--she's proved she has multimedia clout...
...need to be cold-hearted." The 25-year-old Israeli law student said he shot and killed Rabin because the prime minister would "give our country to the Arabs." The court ordered Amir held for 15 days while police prepare charges of murder, the attempted murder of Rabin's bodyguard, and involvement in an illegal organization. TIME's Johanna McGeary says that there is no indication yet that Amir was part of a larger conspiracy: "He's one of eight kids, and one of his brothers has also been arrested on the suspicion that he might have helped Amir...