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...break that mold before it was fully hardened. "I told him if he did Cry-Baby, we'd kill that image," he says. "So he parodied himself by playing a teen idol, and it totally worked." Then Tim Burton gave him the opportunity to bury it for good with Edward Scissorhands, in which Depp played an abandoned monster with cutlery where his digits should have been, trying with sweetly contained but (considering his weaponry) dangerous eagerness to adjust to suburban normalcy. Everyone from moony adolescents to case-hardened movie critics could read the silent, yet somehow unsentimental, plea for succor...
...when many of his Boston Brahmin contemporaries are easing into retirement, 66-year-old Edward Crosby (Ned) Johnson 3rd, chairman of Fidelity Investments, the largest manager of mutual funds in the world, continues to move at warp speed. The year 1997 is the one in which he intends to rechannel the huge savings pools in Asia and Europe through the global stock market, duplicating overseas the mutual-fund juggernaut he has created in the U.S. His primary target: the $9 trillion of accumulated savings in Japan, where individual investors still squirrel away much of their earnings in savings accounts that...
Joining Heaney as winners this year are heart transplant pioneer Michael E. DeBakey, primatologist Jane Goodall, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee and Netscape co-founder James H. Clark...
...high school students are given a survey before the congressional simulation to determine their political leanings. Each student is then assigned a real politician in Washington to emulate, ranging from liberal Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) to conservative Rep. Newt Gingrich...
...most important was with Averell Harriman, the top U.S. envoy in Britain, from whom she channeled intelligence information to her father-in-law to help draw the U.S. into the war. When Harriman moved to Moscow two years later as ambassador, she began a torrid romance with cbs broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, the love of her life, who proposed, then changed his mind when his wife gave birth...