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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both Oscar-winning stars are known for their charitable work and have high credibility with consumers. Ad-industry sources speculate that their commercials will be cause-related, perhaps addressing the environment. The prime beneficiary, though, is Amex, which can use the big box-office names to counter Visa's $8.5 million endorsement deal with Paul McCartney...
Stone, who planned the movie for more than a decade, was ready to do battle too. "Tom has the classical facial structure of an athlete, a baseball player," he says. "He's a kid off a Wheaties box. I wanted to yank the kid off that box and mess with his image -- take him to the dark side." So the kid goes off to war and sees a slaughtered Vietnamese family. In the chaos of a skirmish, he kills one of his own men. Paralyzed from the chest down, he finds his sex life over before it begins. In horrifying...
Cruise was willing to do anything for the picture; he tabled his usual multimillion-dollar salary, and will earn no money until the box office sends some back. He spent hours with Kovic, peppering the vet with questions, soaking up the man's life. In matching wheelchairs, the two men would go shopping; Cruise was rarely recognized. In a Westwood, Calif., electronics store, he was asked to leave because his wheels were leaving marks on the rubber carpet. "He was furious," recalls Kovic. "Everyone in the store turned and looked at him when he shouted, 'I have as much right...
...Wildcats finally got on the board with a short-handed goal at the 12:47 mark of the first period. With UNH forward Shawna Davidson in the box for a tripping penalty, freshman Karyn Bye slipped by Stickles on a breakaway and beat D'Souza with a crisp wrist shot...
...splash of George Washington's silver dollar falling short into the Rappahannock. The show's funniest sketch, a serial, produced a new star, actress Ivy Austin. She plays Gloria, big-city girl, . whose boyfriend (as she confesses endlessly to her hairdresser) wants her to give up everything (a shoe-box apartment), move to Seattle and marry him. Keillor says that when he started to write the script, his hero was a plucky male writer who moved to Manhattan, but Gloria, the archetypal tough, yearning New York woman, muscled in and took over...