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...career. By updating corny card and coin feints and levitation stunts with post-grunge chic, he has leapfrogged from hustling sharpie to the star of his own sweeps-month network special, David Blaine: Street Magic (ABC, May 19, 8 p.m. E.T.). "It's a roll of the dice," admits ABC Entertainment president Jamie Tarses. "But David is very contemporary, of his generation, hip, cool. We think he can pull in the young, urban audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: THE WIZARD OF GRUNGE | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...debts can be term-billed home. Another friend even suggested that our illustrious deans could sing "Wannabe" for tips in the smoky lounge (perhaps in place of where the book swap now stands). "Meet me under the painting of Catherine Loker," students will say. "And bring your lucky dice...

Author: By Corinne E. Funk, | Title: Bring Your Lucky Dice | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...would have cinched a nomination just for skewering her sunny image and sporting a Wonderbra in three scenes of Flirting With Disaster. In the same vein, lovable Marion Ross of Happy Days couldn't have missed for wearing age make-up and dying suddenly in The Evening Star. No dice, ladies. Instead, this year's voters went for Jean-Baptiste, an unknown first-timer in a tricky, understated ensemble turn. Allen and Hershey have higher profiles, but Hollywood and the public spurned their films; regardless, their indelible performances were deservedly remembered...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, | Title: AND THE Winner Is... | 3/20/1997 | See Source »

...nine hours straight. Another marathon session in Seattle started in the morning and lasted--with a break for Melinda to pick up lunch at Burger King--until guests started arriving for dinner. "He loves games that involve problem solving," Buffett says. "I showed him a set of four dice with numbers arranged in a complex way so that any one of them would on average beat one of the others. He was one of three people I ever showed them to who figured this out and saw the way to win was to make me choose first which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN SEARCH OF THE REAL BILL GATES | 1/13/1997 | See Source »

...Marvin (Hume Cronyn), who sucks the ink off Yahtzee dice, hasn't uttered a coherent word in years. His sister Ruth (Gwen Verdon) is so devoted to soap operas that she dons a formal gown when her favorite characters wed. His daughter Lee (Meryl Streep), who smokes all the time, has no talent for raising kids. Just look at her son Hank (Leonardo DiCaprio), with his pathological fear of apologizing to people he's hurt. Fortunately, Lee's sister Bessie (Diane Keaton) is around. She has taken care of her dad for 20 years. But no good deed goes unpunished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A RICH FILM FEAST | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

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