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...much easier to write Depp off as just another "actor boy," seeming to strike those inarticulately nihilistic poses that are the type's trademark, than it is to come seriously to grips with his astonishingly rangy body of work. Or even to catch it, since this Florida high school dropout, failed rocker and totally instinctive actor tends to work cult country, where a film's theatrical life-span can be nasty, brutal and short, but where these days the more interesting directors and writers hang...
DIED. FRANK TEJEDA, 51, U.S. Representative from Texas; of pneumonia after battling a brain tumor; in San Antonio. The Democrat rose from high school dropout to lawyer to first Congressman from the new Hispanic 28th District...
...made his name as a borderline school dropout. Now he's going to be President. John Travolta, the only actor from Welcome Back, Kotter still getting good gigs, will play the role of the ambitious Southern Governor in the movie Primary Colors. Some may consider it a comedown from his latest role: that of an angel...
DIED. BURTON LANE, 84, high school dropout turned celebrated stage and film composer who wrote the music for the Broadway shows Finian's Rainbow and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; in New York City. Lane won a Grammy and was nominated for a Tony for On a Clear...
...together and found odd jobs as programmers. "We were true partners," Gates says. "We'd talk for hours every day." After Gates went off to Harvard, Allen drove his rattletrap Chrysler cross-country to continue their collaboration. He eventually persuaded Gates to become that university's most famous modern dropout in order to start a software company, which they initially dubbed Micro-Soft (after considering the name Allen & Gates Inc.), to write versions of BASIC for the first personal computers. It was an intense relationship: Gates the workaholic code writer and competitor, Allen the dreamy visionary...