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...junior at UMass-Boston, who called himself Errol Flynn, remarked, "We're basically here to chill...

Author: By Jung K. Kim, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Friends of Cannabis Rally for Legalization | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...really is like Cary Grant, who did the most outrageous comedy and also the most sophisticated line readings," says director Lawrence Kasdan, who has worked with Kline in five movies, including The Big Chill and Silverado. "Here's a guy who's made a lot of money for a long time doing exactly what he wants. I think it's a charmed life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CLOSET HAMLET | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...variations of Hamlet in other men who suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. He first confounded moviegoers in 1982 as Nathan Landau, Meryl Streep's psychotic lover in Sophie's Choice. A year later, he backflipped effortlessly into the running shoes of Harold Cooper in The Big Chill, a successful entrepreneur at odds with his counterculture roots. Even his dual character in Dave--the story of an ordinary man pretending to be President--reflected a Hamlet-like internal struggle between heart and mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CLOSET HAMLET | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...hiatus from moviemaking led him to actress Phoebe Cates, who was working on a play at New York's Public Theater when Kline was rehearsing Henry V there in 1984. The two had met briefly before at an early reading of The Big Chill, where Cates performed the Meg Tilly role. But it wasn't until Kline hired Cates' former personal assistant as his own--and gave her the job of securing a date with Cates as her first official task--that their relationship began. The couple married three weeks before Kline won his Oscar. Now, eight years later, Kline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CLOSET HAMLET | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...civil lawsuits that produce the most dramatic reform. Last year a federal jury in New York awarded Mason $1.2 million for her abduction to Alabama, a judgment that, though later reduced by the judge, sent a chill through the bounty-hunting community. Another family, terrorized in a Southern California Motel 6, won a $1.15 million verdict. Despite last week's deaths, damage awards like these are inexorably exerting a civilizing effect on a profession with a reputation for cutting legal corners. "The days of kicking doors and slapping whores are over," says Don Floyd, owner of Northeast Bail Bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MURDERS AT DAWN | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

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