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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they convict Gigante through these nefarious means, it's a death knell for this neighborhood. You used to be able to leave your doors and windows open around here. For years Gigante has been a benevolent presence, and I'd rather have him as a neighbor than any cop in the Sixth Precinct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE LAND OF THE GIGANTES | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

...local video store and check out Rod Steiger's star turn in the 1968 thriller "No Way to Treat a Lady," as a mother-fixated, master-of-disguise strangler on the loose on Manhattan's Upper East Side. He's tracked by a young George Segal as a hangdog cop with some mother problems of his own. For extra currency, try Steiger's third incarnation as Dorian Smith, the swisher with a heart of stone who's been a very bad boy. Look for "Jaws" mayor (and The Graduate's Mr. Robinson) Murray Hamilton as Inspector Haines, and Charlie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Couch Potato Guide | 7/18/1997 | See Source »

Jones plays the unflappable agent "k", who's apparently never met an E.T. that he couldn't place. Smith, a former NYPD cop, joins him as agent-in-training "J" after running down and almost bagging an alien offender. They're soon confronted with the mother of all diplomatic crises: when the big bad extraterrestrial Bug lands on Earth, assassinates a high-ranking alien and steals a galaxy (don't ask), the assassinated alien's compatriots threaten to destroy Earth if the galaxy isn't recovered...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: KING ALIEN BOOTY | 7/11/1997 | See Source »

...said, 'Don't let Jane get married, or she'll maybe even, you know, have a baby.'" Perry, who is white, was reared in Tonawanda, in upstate New York, in what is still to some extent Seneca country. Making Whitefield a cross-cultural Seneca (novelist Tony Hillerman's Navajo cop Jim Chee, for instance, seems more thoroughly Indian) gave Perry an opportunity to learn more about the local Native American culture. And making her a woman "let me see whether I could write about 51% of the population." He has nearly finished another Whitefield novel, he says, and has three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THIS DICK IS A JANE | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

ARRESTED. RUTHANN ARON, 54, a Republican primary candidate for the Senate in 1994; on charges of soliciting murder; in Gaithersburg, Md. In this stranger-than-Fargo tale, Aron allegedly hired a hit man (actually an undercover cop) to do away with her husband of more than 30 years, Barry, and a lawyer who testified against her in a defamation suit she filed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 23, 1997 | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

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