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They then brought out a cardboard cutout of Hans Solo, Ford's character in Star Wars, to compete in a skills contest with Ford...

Author: By Brendan H. Gibbon, | Title: Ford Receives 'Man of the Year' | 2/21/1996 | See Source »

Colangelo and Kamath had the cardboard Hans Solo translate "Wookie," the language of Solo's friend Chewbacca, with the help of lines from Star Wars over the loudspeakers. They then asked Ford to do the same...

Author: By Brendan H. Gibbon, | Title: Ford Receives 'Man of the Year' | 2/21/1996 | See Source »

...comes word from Pacific Trading Cards that it is issuing a Jerry Jones card. According to one trade journal, the cardboard has a market value of from $1.50 to $3. The card of Michael Irvin in the same set, for example, goes from 60?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGLY AMERICA'S TEAM | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

...whatever quantity we want, without gaining weight or clogging up our arteries. And food producers are delighted to cooperate: supermarket shelves overflow with diet soda, sugar-free candy and, in recent years, fat-free cookies, crackers and snacks of all descriptions. Some of them may taste like chemical-flavored cardboard, but for millions of diet-conscious consumers, they're better than practicing self-control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEALTH: ARE WE READY FOR FAT-FREE FAT? | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...made 16 films, most of them labored and plot heavy. But as a live act, Martin and Lewis were awesome. Their appearances on NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour made the viewer a co-conspirator in their anarchy; they broke the "fourth wall" as blithely as if it were a cardboard prop, and incorporated their famous arguments into gag lyrics for their duets. They worked literally nose to nose: Jerry would lick Dean's face; Dean would flick his cigarette ashes in Jerry's mouth (and lick Jer's face). It was primal therapy on the 12-inch screen, stripping bare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CROONING TOWARD OBLIVION: DEAN MARTIN (1917-1995) | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

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