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...Yeah!" says Jim, 38, a barrel-chested film-distribution manager with a chubby, boyish face. He lowers his camera. "I never knew there were so many different kinds." His eyes are glittering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT ESCAPE | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

Whenever Newt Gingrich needs a little extra motivation to keep off the 30 pounds he has lost since summer, all he has to do is look at Bill Paxon. Paxon is the lean, boyish, irrepressibly upbeat Congressman from upstate New York who might have become Speaker of the House last July if the attempt to overthrow Gingrich had succeeded. The coup failed, Paxon was forced to resign his leadership post and Gingrich has since reasserted a semblance of control, over both his weight and his troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HE WANTS NEWT GINGRICH'S JOB | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...Moore), Jack serves as a surrogate parent to his actors: Eddie, whom he finds working as a runner in a disco; Rollergirl (Heather Graham), named for the rollerskates that never leave her feet, even when the rest of her clothing do; and Reed Rothschild (John C. Reilly), Eddie's boyish sidekick. This family, which includes a few other "stars" and crew members like Little Bill (William H. Macy) and Buck Swope (Don Cheadle), proves surprisingly endearing. As in good mafia films--like The Godfather and Good-fellas--the viewer finds a certain beauty and morality in a family that inhabits...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taste the '70s Again, For the First Time | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

...what was left of old Nauvoo and learned that Smith had run his growing church from an office above his family's general store. I liked this detail. It brought the man alive for me. Unlike Brigham Young, the stern puritan who succeeded him, Smith was an improviser, a boyish mystic, brimming with charismatic, homegrown visions. In the fields beyond his store, he liked to dress up as a general and drill his personal army, the Nauvoo Legion. In 1844, the year he was murdered, he announced a quixotic candidacy for the U.S. presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALKING A MILE IN THEIR SHOES | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

MARRIED. MATTHEW BRODERICK, 34, winsomely boyish actor, and current Broadway princess (in Once Upon a Mattress) SARAH JESSICA PARKER, 32; secretly, at a New York City synagogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 2, 1997 | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

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