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Today, when movies are not so grand, male icons come in two models. The comics (Bill Murray, Tom Hanks, Eddie Murphy) trade in hip facetiousness, in sitcom-size emotions, in the suave hustling of attitude. The hunks (Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone, Clint Eastwood) go crusading for the Grail, the heavyweight title, the urban psycho, but have few communal roots; they are loners, in quest only of the quest. Suspended between these two types is young Tom Cruise -- a certified star in search of an enduring identity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kevin Costner: Pursuing The Dream | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

Snyder lost his respectability and his job as a television tout when he branched out into anthropology and started handicapping black athletes' thighs. Previously, neither CBS nor its audience appeared to mind his old gambling conviction. (Nobody cares or even recalls that President Ford also pardoned Jimmy.) Softened memories are measures of attitudes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Did Pete Rose Do It? What Are the Odds? | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE. The adventure genre may be nearly exhausted, but producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg know how to make the thrills crack like Indy's bullwhip. Sean Connery and Harrison Ford find special star resonance in the bond between an aloof father and his heroic, hero-worshiping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jun. 19, 1989 | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

Talk about boffo box office. Now showing in 2,327 theaters in the U.S., Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is the biggest-opening blockbuster of all time. The third in the series of cliff-hanging tales directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford, Crusade has been breaking records since it made its debut May 24. The film accounted for more than half of all the movie tickets sold in the U.S. over Memorial Day weekend. Fans paid $11.2 million to see it on May 27 alone, the biggest one-day take ever scored by a movie, and shelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES: Indy Plunders The Box Office | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE. The adventure genre may be nearly exhausted, but producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg know how to make the thrills crack like Indy's bullwhip. Sean Connery and Harrison Ford find special star resonance in the bond between an aloof father and his heroic, hero-worshiping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jun. 12, 1989 | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

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