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1. A man and a woman are making love in heated close-up. Suddenly she stabs him with an ice pick. "She is first having sex with him, then killing him," says one person who has seen the film. "And she doesn't do either gently."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Ever Became of NC-17? | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

Julie Salamon, film critic of the Wall Street Journal, got to watch the accident in slo-mo close-up. In The Devil's Candy: The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to Hollywood (Houghton Mifflin; $24.95), she tracks all the bollixed decisions that made the bosses at Warner Bros. wonder why...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Goner from the Git-Go | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

No wonder Vladimir Lenin looks pensive in this rare close-up taken in his tomb. It's bad enough that his eponymous city is St. Petersburg again, that statues of him are toppling everywhere and that the country he hammered together is falling apart. Now there are even threats to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disturbing His Peace | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

Normal people, beginning their careers, often plan toward what they hope to be doing in 20 years. But journalists aren't that normal -- and besides, how could Barrett Seaman have known in October 1971 that he would spend his 20th anniversary with our company in rural Wise County, Va., watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The Publisher: Oct. 28, 1991 | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

Me reflects its author's personality perfectly; it even replicates the tremor in her voice with dashes and sentence fragments. An odd bird Hepburn be, but then so is Rose Sayer pouring gin over the side of the African Queen. And Jo March sliding down a banister. And Susan Vance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Person Singular | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

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