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...Mafia family that Scorsese has made from the Nicholas Pileggi book Wiseguy, is the centerpiece in a new rogues' gallery. Mob movies are gathering, like capos at the Appalachia conference, from all over America. You want Italian-American hoods of the New York City stripe? We got 'em by the hundreds in GoodFellas. In My Blue Heaven, written by Pileggi's wife Nora Ephron as a kind of comic coda to the Scorsese picture, Steve Martin plays a Mafia rat in a Witness Protection Program out West. At Christmas, Paramount has The Godfather Part III, a climax to the gangland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Married to The Mob | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

...from 7:30 to 4:30, six days a week, with a fine gray dust accumulating in the folds of their ears and eyes. Then, after dinner, they prowl the hills for new finds. They are bivouacked 55 miles from the nearest shower stall, in Jordan. "I give 'em lots of beer," Horner explains. "And I find good things for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACK HORNER; Head Man In the Boneyard | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...usual, the Democrats are divided. Senate majority leader George Mitchell, flanked by budget committee chairman Jim Sasser, favors a risky wait-'em-out approach, calculating that the nearer the dreaded sequester comes, the more malleable Bush will be. So far, Mitchell has prevailed over House Speaker Tom Foley, majority leader Richard Gephardt and budget chairman Leon Panetta, who, one White House official surmises, "would have preferred to wrap this up weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deficit of Guts | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

This man has the stats. He has the moves, the wardrobe and the attitude too, but he has those numbers cold. Hear him: "Currently we're on a 60-city tour, selling out everywhere, including Salt Lake City in Mormon country. Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em is one of the few albums since Thriller to hold the No. 1 in Billboard -- No. 1 pop, No. 1 black album at the same time. It's the biggest selling album of this year, bar any -- rock 'n' roll, pop, blues, toe tappin', whatever it is. We went out and sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: M.C. Hammer: U Can't Touch Him | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

...Throw-'Em-In-Jail-To-Keep-'Em-From-Using-It mentality which pervades Bennett's strategies and is behind the random testing approach shows a serious ignorance of the psychology of addiction. Drug addiction, like alcoholism, cannot be treated by forcing the user to stop through legal penalties. Only once they admit to themselves that they have a problem can addicts reform. An addict needs our sympathy and pity and will be less likely to come forward when there are heavy legal penalties for drug...

Author: By Liam T. A. ford, | Title: The Drug War Is No Solution | 8/7/1990 | See Source »

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