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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Miserly father James (Jerome Kilty) worsens matters by denying the seriousness both of Mary's drug use andof Edmund's illness, trying to scrimp on a sanitarium for Edmund and taking out his anxieties on his elder son, the failed actor Jamie (Bill Camp). Jamie, already a depressed and cynical...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: To Jamie, With Love and Squalor | 7/16/1996 | See Source »

But there is a more serious and unfortunate consequence of this most recent fixation--the extinction of people who eat without prior examination. Eating, one of life's greatest activities, is becoming more of a burden than a pleasure. One cannot escape the tendency to read the nutritional content on...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '(Fat-)Free at Last!' | 7/9/1996 | See Source »

Finally, the remaining monks managed to escape in a Land Rover. "They were just waiting for us to leave," recalls Bordeau. In the end, between 100 and 150 Tutsi men, women and children were slaughtered at the Mokoto monastery. "The genocidal mentality of Rwanda is spreading here," Bordeau lamented after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A CONTAGION OF GENOCIDE | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

John Wilkes Booth has become a candidate for unearthing because 22 of his descendants claim that an innocent man was gunned down by soldiers and that Booth was permitted to escape. That would suggest a government plot to kill Lincoln. The crackpot notion that Booth did not shout, "Sic semper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIG, MUST WE? | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

The only problem with that scenario is the original scenario. The Nutty Professor was never really a comedy. Directed and co-written by Lewis in his "total filmmaker" phase, it mostly projected the comic's disastrous desire to morph his gloriously geeky anarchist into a soulful clown. Murphy, abetted by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE FUNNY PROFESSOR | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

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