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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Time to Kill and Lone Star, gave evidence of a gritty, ingratiating talent. But he looked lost amid the more seasoned actors in Amistad, and no one could have brought to sensible life the woozy guru he played in Contact. It seemed as if McConaughey might lapse into ex-hunk obscurity, like those slightly too-good-looking fellows spotted behind a counter at a California video store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Famous for Being Famous | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

Joey McIntyre, an ex-New Kid on the Block, has a solo album, Stay the Same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joey McIntyre | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...EX-PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH Opted for stock in lieu of an $80K honorarium. A year later it's worth $14 million. Touche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 29, 1999 | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...Norm Show (Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. E.T., ABC), Macdonald, in the least likely scenario since Manimal, plays an ex-hockey player who is avoiding jail by paying off a community-service sentence as a social worker. While Macdonald is often amusing, the sitcom never rises above mediocrity. The problem, besides the premise, is that Macdonald's sharp sarcasm may be a bit much over half an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Norm Show | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...construction of the Hale Telescope on Palomar Mountain. Four times as powerful as the Hooker, the Hale would be the largest telescope on Earth for four decades. It would have been even longer, but its completion was interrupted by World War II. So was Hubble's career. The ex-major signed on as head of ballistics at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. (At one point the eminent astronomer spent an afternoon test-firing bazookas, at great personal risk, to pinpoint a design flaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomer Edwin Hubble | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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