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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That, unfortunately, was about as far as Mondale's early screen career went. She went back to Canton, graduated, and returned to L.A. in 1983 -- where the roles didn't exactly come thick and fast. Mondale got walk-on parts in dud movies such as "Nickel Mountain" and "Sunset Limousine," and five lines in the abortive TV series "Matt Houston." A part as an aerobics instructor landed her ads for hosiery and health clubs, but for Mondale life was starting to dry up. "It was scary," she told People magazine. "I didn't like not having work and not having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is Eleanor Mondale? | 9/18/1998 | See Source »

...became too administrative. "Steering a glacier," he says, "is not easy." Platt was ousted because he clashed with studio chairman Casey Silver. It was Silver, not Platt, who approved a slew of underperforming films, such as the Bruce Willis-Richard Gere vehicle The Jackal and the political dud Primary Colors. Silver, whose contract has been renewed, says he can turn the studio around: "We have excellent product in the pipeline. I couldn't be more confident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bronfman Stirs Universal | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...giant leap never seemed to take us beyond rocks and golf shots. Hanks may want to restore NASA's glory, but on the evidence so far, he hasn't succeeded. Like its subject, From the Earth to the Moon is, contrary to all expectations, a bit of a dud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: We Do Not Have Lift-Off | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

...that the morning dew had yet to disappear. She upstaged First Lady Hillary Clinton in wreath making, and the First Lady of Cooking, Julia Child, in pastry making. And she has admitted, without reservation, her determination to take over Christmas. So revitalizing K Mart, the $32 billion discount-store dud, should be a piece of cake for Martha Stewart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATTENTION K MARTHA SHOPPERS | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...Streep because they both come at a movie script as if it's a play," says L.A. Confidential director Curtis Hanson. "They make the most out of their lines, while a lot of actors immediately try to change things." Spacey's earnest directorial debut this year, the box-office dud Albino Alligator, even seems like a filmed play since it takes place mostly in one room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

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