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...that keeps on giving: Ted Turner is not just donating $1 billion to the United Nations, he's planning to solicit more huge charitable contributions from his moneyed peers. The CNN founder and vice chairman of Time Warner (which owns TIME) brought tears to the eyes of wife Jane Fonda when he announced the gargantuan gift ? which he will make in 10 annual payments of $100 million in Time Warner stock ? to support programs such as UNICEF, peace-keeping missions and a land-mine cleanup...
...seems somehow not to be him. But that other Burgess Meredith was everything else, from a Shakespearean actor to the quacking Penguin in TV's Batman. He directed himself and Charles Laughton in The Man on the Eiffel Tower, co-produced On Our Merry Way with Henry Fonda and James Stewart, and made three Twilight Zone episodes in 1959. He was married four times, served in the Air Force, and crusaded for environmental causes. And he knew enough to do it all: "If I spent all my time in Shakespearean companies and only did art movies like Olivier, my position...
...given his fondness for fossils. Gingrich was able to indulge his fondness last week, first taking part in a debate on how predatory Tyrannosaurus rex really was (Gingrich's view: very) and then participating in a dig in Paradise Valley, Mont., where, under the eye of local celebrity Peter Fonda, he actually found a dinosaur bone. And no, his aides didn't bury it there for him to find. It took several discouraging hours of picking at rocks and soil under the hot sun. But the Speaker was exuberant. "This," he told the assembled reporters, "is sheer pleasure...
...latest film is populated with jive-talking killers and other lowlifes. The plot revolves around a streetwise flight attendant, played by Grier, who double- and triple-crosses a gun dealer (Samuel L. Jackson) despite interference from an ex-con (Robert De Niro) and a stoned-out beach bunny (Bridget Fonda) who bounces between the two men. Filled with Tarantino-lingo overkill (the N word is reportedly used 10 times in the first scene alone), the film mixes ultra-violence with the director's usual pop-culture references and hip humor. "At the very least, you'll have a really good...
...fieldwork. Coe also chose scripts, fought with sponsors over the hiring of blacklisted actors, scoured the theater scene for talent. He enticed stars, from Jose Ferrer (Coe put Cyrano de Bergerac on TV between its Broadway run and the Kramer film adaptation) to Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Henry Fonda (for a Producer's Showcase staging of The Petrified Forest) to Frank Sinatra (who, in the musical version of Our Town, sang Love and Marriage). Coe's 1955 airing of the Mary Martin Peter Pan was the highest-rated show in the young medium's history...