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Should we worry about Nicolas Cage? Watching this gifted actor in the lush new war romance Captain Corelli's Mandolin, as he struts and frets so handsomely and woos starlet-of-the-moment Penelope Cruz--as he pays obeisance to all the courtly gestures of the traditional leading man--a viewer has to wonder if Cage is tethered forever to the peculiar job description of Movie Star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Saga Of Nic The Nice | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...Cage used to be just an actor--a fabulously unpredictable one, equal parts promise and menace. For his first decade in movies, he danced on the weird side: as a blond goofball in Valley Girl, the blind Vietnam vet of Birdy, Moonstruck's one-handed Romeo, the drifter haphazardly hired as a killer in Red Rock West. With a personality that mixed yelping hound dog with doleful hangdog, Cage raised moping to an art. He suggested a man wrestling with himself to hide the psycho loner or lover within. He was sweet on the surface and wild at heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Saga Of Nic The Nice | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...Look at the teen flicks of the '80s. In their vision of high school, "crowd" is everything. In 1983's "Valley Girl," Nicolas Cage plays a semi-mohawked Hollywood surf-punk with a crush on the suburban aristocrat of the title. When he sings along to a new wave tune on the radio, her cheerleaderish friend reacts as is he's reciting from "Mein Kampf." When he and his buddy decide to sneak into a party at her house where jocks in polo shirts cavort to bubbly synth pop, it's not social awkwardness they're worried about; should things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Home in the Crowd | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

...Winners NOR MALENA HASSAN Malaysian sets record by spending a month in a cage with more than 2,000 scorpions, handily beating the old mark of zero days JEAN-YVES EMPEREUR Archaeologist wins apology from Tomb Raider gamemaker for using his name. This puts the kibosh on our new PC game: Super Jean-Yves EUROPEAN VERMIN New study says that an Ebola-like virus, not rats, caused the Black Plague. Rats, it turns out, were actually responsible for the Renaissance Losers WILT CHAMBERLAIN Late basketball star's $4.3 million "luxury love nest," including water-bed floor, still unsold. Come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...Having abandoned mouse-whackers, on Buddhist grounds, and having despaired of the cats as hired assassins, we have resorted to a "Havahart" trap - a small rectangular steel cage, with doors at either end and bait in the middle, that captures the mouse alive. We have caught a mouse on each of the last two nights (baiting with peanut butter, of course). I come into the kitchen and find the little prodigy, eyes bright with terror, scrunched in a corner of the cage, under the flap door. It's possible that part of his unhappiness arises from humiliation at being fooled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Farm, Rapidly Evolving Super Mice | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

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