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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this time, of course, she was no longer a typical voter. Thanks to her fame as a TIME cover subject--and her potential to become a high-profile convert--she found herself engaged in long phone conversations with the head of Dole's state campaign several nights' running. The Perot people sent her a book. The Clintonites never called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECOND ACTS | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...People vs. Larry Flynt, written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski of Ed Wood fame, jogs from one incident to the next, amassing information and dispensing attitude but rarely creating real characters. That's supposed to be director Milos Forman's forte; here, though, nearly everyone is an enemy or a stooge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A RICH FILM FEAST | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...demanding of the people around her," says Parker (director of Fame and Mississippi Burning), who got the film made after at least three other directors had tried and failed. "But she's not a cliche diva stamping her foot. She's very intelligent. You've got to make sure you have the right answer when she has a question. She's a control freak, but so am I. When there was a problem, I would just say, 'Let her and me solve it.' " Madonna responds in kind: "Alan was very supportive during the shooting. He let me sort of follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAD FOR EVITA | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...stands on the balcony of the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires, the night humid with portent, the masses chanting her name, as she sings her calculated confession. "And as for fortune, and as for fame,/ I never invited them in,/ Though they seemed to the world they were all I desired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MADONNA AND EVA PERON: YOU MUST LOVE HER | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

JACK NICHOLSON Warner Bros.' Mars Attacks! star bronzed on Hollywood Walk of Fame 11 years after Bugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 16, 1996 | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

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