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...Peters, the mad -- well, anyway, crabby -- scientist who created Ulysses, and the mechanical marvel himself. The former is a ferocious misanthrope, misogynist and klutz; the latter is, naturally and logically, everything his master cannot hope to be. He moves, for example, not with the herky-jerky nervousness of his creator or a too cute movie robot. Instead, Malkovich invests him with a preternatural smoothness. His character is equally subtle. It may be based on the wise-child conventions on which the typical sci-fi robot is modeled. But Malkovich informs and energizes his performance with the deadpan bravery, the relentless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Making Mr. Right | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...were accused of any wrongdoing. But they may still have to pay huge sums in back taxes, penalties and interest. Sidney Poitier ended up with questionable deductions of $500,757, Michael Landon with $1 million, and his former Bonanza co-star Lorne Greene with $333,838. Producer Norman Lear, creator of All in the Family, has to answer for $1.5 million. CBS Chief Executive Laurence Tisch's deductions amounted to $1.1 million, while his brother Preston, the U.S. Postmaster General, benefited from a $480,508 write-off. The biggest hit may have to be taken by French Financier Michel David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pied Piper to the Truly Rich | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again." Lines like that were once the cynosure of adolescents and the despair of writers like Ernest Hemingway, who called their creator, Thomas Wolfe, a "glandular giant with the brains and the guts of three mice . . . the over-bloated Li'l Abner of literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lit Abner LOOK HOMEWARD: A LIFE OF THOMAS WOLFE | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

Rutger Fury, former national political correspondent for the National Enquirer creator of the expression "Let's Boogie," is a close personal friend of Jeffrey J. Wise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOUND OF FURY: | 3/14/1987 | See Source »

...baffled hurt, not instructive triumph. When Hughes' characters and situations are intensely enough drawn (as in The Breakfast Club), one scarcely notices such manipulation. But Some Kind of Wonderful has not attained its full growth. Thin, gulpy, awkward, it stands before us, artlessly begging sympathy but betraying its creator's worst weakness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Teen Turmoil SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

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