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...good news story is not how broadly or deeply it affects its audience but how interested those consumers will be to hear of it. The editor must keep throwing popcorn to his or her audience in order to keep the elephants alertly placated in front of their television cage. If the elephants get off on O.J., then give them O.J. And Kato. And bring back Nicole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporate Takeovers of the News | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...This is the team-spirit action movie Mission Impossible should have been," says TIME's Richard Corliss. A tortured general (Ed Harris) and some renegade Marines seize Alacatraz, take 81 tourists hostage and threaten to launch gas rockets across the bay to vaporize San Francisco. An FBI biochemist (Nicolas Cage) is dispatched to defuse the weapons; a wily hermit (Sean Connery), the only prisoner to escape Alcatraz and live, is to help Cage navigate the Rock1s maze of passageways. It all works very smartly. The Simpson-Bruckheimer production duo run clever variations on their macho obsessions (missiles, car chases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies ... The Rock | 5/31/1996 | See Source »

...ROCK (June 7). Connery, visible this time and wearing his full toupee, is a hermit con who helps hip-geeky Nicolas Cage storm Alcatraz to prevent some bad guys from doing really bad things. The trailer makes it look like another exercise in chatty machismo from the Simpson-Bruckheimer team (Crimson Tide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SUDDENLY THIS SUMMER | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...return to work this week following a lengthy recovery. Moloney's absence has left power concentrated in the hands of agency president Richard Lovett, 35. A go-getter nicknamed L'Ovitz, Lovett has worked at CAA for more than a decade, handling Tom Hanks, Michael Keaton, Nicolas Cage and other A-listers. The perception is that Lovett is performing well, if not exactly thriving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE 10% DISSOLUTION | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...frames, a sewing box and tabletops combine with the big curve of the screen behind the chair to give the piece a strong binding rhythm at odds with the poor shriveled figure. All is dust and mummification except for one touch of life: a real canary cheeping in its cage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: ALL-AMERICAN BARBARIC YAWP | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

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