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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, let's try. His shows, to be sure, seldom rise above pleasant kitsch. Jekyll & Hyde is a sluggish retelling of the famous horror tale with hair-flinging histrionics by star Robert Cuccioli; The Scarlet Pimpernel is so cheesily staged that the hero's main feat of derring-do is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: GRABBING HIS MOMENT | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

What happened between last week's derring-do and October 1996, when Business Week sounded the voice of doom in a cover story called "Cable TV: The Looming Crisis?" Not much. The industry remains burdened with $50 billion of debt, still requires huge capital outlays, is threatened by satellite and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABLE'S COOL AGAIN | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

BETHESDA, Maryland: With eight holes to play, the 1997 U.S. Open stood deadlocked among four players, all at a modest four under par. Three of them gave. Colin Montgomerie missed a five-footer at seventeen to drop to three under, then failed to birdie the par three 18th. Tom Lehman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Par Excellence | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

Still, one can ask how a half-century of living and nearly a quarter-century's reign as the most successful moviemaker in history affect the man who took out a patent on perennial childhood. From the films he made as a 12-year-old, through such defining blockbusters as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: PETER PAN GROWS UP BUT CAN HE STILL FLY? | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

The author, a Washington Post editor, gets a lot right about reporting, from Truell's woozy bravado to the knowledge that a new owner may stride into the newsroom any morning and start counting paper clips. The ethical dilemma he presents is real too, though a bit overstated. Truell learns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: INTELLIGENCE MATTERS | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

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