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There's a plausible explanation--well, all right, a plot line that made some kind of sense to producer Jerry Bruckheimer--for the troubles visited on this perfectly nice chap. What he doesn't know, but we do, is that his pal has dropped a computer disc into one of his shopping bags. On it is irrefutable photographic evidence that a Congressman has been murdered by agents of a faceless government security agency for opposing its plan to destroy privacy as we know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Will Power Wins Again | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...next two years, she matured into a dominant athlete as well. She not only became the first American to win a World Cup downhill title but did it two years in a row. Now she's rich too, from endorsement deals with the likes of Nike, United Airlines and Chap Stick. Her signature cross-training shoe, the Air Max Electrify, is scheduled to hit shelves this month. Her career dreams go even beyond all that: she aims to become a talk-show host. "Every time I watch Rosie O'Donnell, I think about it more," she said last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nagano 1998: Alpine Skiing: Street Smarts | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

Getting married is always an act of faith, but a recent pair of nuptials displayed a particularly vibrant brand of optimism. SALMAN RUSHDIE, who is still under the fatwa placed upon him on Valentine's Day 1989 by the late Ayatullah Khomeini (unromantic chap), wed his girlfriend of three years in a private ceremony in the Hamptons, New York City's summer playground. Most media outlets, in recognition of the danger in which her marital state places the new MRS. RUSHDIE, are simply calling her Elizabeth. It's The Satanic Verses author's third stab at marriage, which puts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 15, 1997 | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

...funeral industry, told TIME shortly before her death last summer that she planned to target the deceptive practices of consolidators in a revision of her book, which she jokingly titled Death Warmed Over (to be published by Knopf). "You think of dear old Mr. Johnson, an honest old chap that your family has dealt with over the years, and so you go to Johnson's, and it turns out to be this highly predatory different outfit where nothing's the same," she said. "I don't think people know anything about it. I think they're absolutely ignorant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FIGHT TO THE DEATH | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...became clear, however, that the magnet was Diana--accepting flowers, flirting with soldiers, falling asleep in public while pregnant or simply smiling. The Prince is an attractive enough chap, but notably unphotogenic. The camera worshiped his wife, and he became jealous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRACTURED FAIRY TALE | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

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