Word: charisma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...existing ones. Pixar, his latest love, is taking off. Eleven years ago, he clicked his mouse on the Hollywood icon and bought Pixar from Star Wars director George Lucas. He has dumped upwards of $55 million of his own money into the venture and fairly burbles with that famed charisma over his new mission: marrying Silicon Valley technology to Hollywood's creative genius. His studio became the first--besides Disney--to hit it big with an animated movie, Toy Story, which cleared a respectable $37 million for the fledgling studio. Jobs owns 60% of Pixar, which is valued at anywhere...
GEORGE CLOONEY New Bat-guy must turn TV charm into screen charisma. He's Stewart, all right--Stewart Granger...
...Patric attends to all the heavy heroics. In Batman & Robin the guest villains are Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze. Thurman has sexy fun with her villainous eco-freak, but Arnold is encased in an icy truss of a costume that obscures his rippling charisma. Memo to the Batman team: next time you pay a star $25 million...
...Blue Jays, says, "Bill Essick, who signed Joe DiMaggio, once told me that nobody was better than Ruth. Frankly, I have an easier time imagining Jordan playing in the majors than I do Ruth running up and down the floor in the N.B.A." If an athlete is judged by charisma, then we can ponder Jordan's magnetism while wearing his sneakers and cologne or ingesting his favorite cereal and energy drink...
...Marc Zigo's charisma: Within one week of meeting me, he told me he was in love with me and he would follow me anywhere. He said, "A feeling like this only comes around once in a lifetime, and you should seize it." The whole family was swept up by him. My nieces loved him. My sister, who was doing her best not to like him, said within five minutes of meeting him she couldn't help but like...