Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...performers with male-teen appeal, bought. Sandler's first two films, Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, were crude and slouchy, but they returned enough money on modest investments to turn Sandler into the next worst thing to a movie star. Now he raises the stakes, playing in director Ernest Dickerson's industrial-strength action comedy Bulletproof with Damon Wayans, graduate of another TV sketch show, In Living Color, and a person of actual charm and talent...
...person with a long history of human-rights work," said Ernest Winsor, a staff attorney at the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute who has known Marshall since the 1970s. "Then she went to Harvard and was sort of out of the loop with the political-advocacy legal scene. Now she goes into it with a very important position...
...compiled the King James version strove for accuracy and directness and produced, in the process, some of the greatest poetry in the language. That Bible inspired, among so much else, John Wesley's hymns, the Book of Common Prayer, the speeches of Abraham Lincoln and the prose rhythms of Ernest Hemingway. It became the great resonator, the shared reference uniting English-speaking peoples around the world...
...dinosaur partner, to a video release. Increasingly, though, the majors view DTV as an attractive alternative--a place to release franchise spin-offs, avoid $50 million marketing costs, make a bundle. Sequels to such mainstream fare as Land Before Time, Darkman, Children of the Corn and the Jim Varney Ernest series have been big DTV hits. In 1994, when Disney released The Return of Jafar, a DTV sequel to Aladdin, it expected to move about 2 million copies. Jafar sold close to 11 million, earning Disney around $100 million...
SANDRA BULLOCK, for one, is fascinated by her love life. "I relive in the tabloids all these relationships I'm having with people I've never met," she says. One of her faux beaus, CHRIS O'DONNELL, is her co-star in In Love and War, the story of Ernest Hemingway and the nurse he met while working for the Red Cross during World War I. "Everything I know about myself had to leave," says the exuberant Bullock of playing the reserved Agnes von Kurowsky. "That's why I did it." Plus she learned all that nurses knew...