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For Barbie's corporate mom, Mattel president Jill Barad, 45, the line represents the first test of her stewardship of the company. In January, Barad will become one of just four women to head a Fortune 1000 company when she succeeds ceo John Amerman, who is retiring. It was Barad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BARBIE BOOTS UP | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

It's nice to think they were still friends. But by 1968, John, Paul and George were really three soloists working within the Beatles franchise, and within the sealed universe of the Abbey Road studio. In Circus, the Stones reached across that universe and invited others to join in--not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: IT'S MOLDY ROCK 'N' ROLL | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

The Wonders come together without cohering and fall apart without reason. We know the movie thinks the drummer (the criminally cute, severely Hanksian Tom Everett Scott) is the band's soul, destined to get that kiss from Liv Tyler. But we don't learn what inspired the Wonders' leader (Johnathon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: THAT THING--DON'T DO IT! | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

Proof of that came on Aug. 13, when Microsoft unveiled Explorer 3.0, the newest version of its Web-browsing software. The 8-megabyte behemoth matched Netscape's franchise browser, Navigator, feature for feature, and at a much better price--free. Available over the Web, the browser notched a million downloads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WINNER TAKE ALL: MICROSOFT V. NETSCAPE | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

Which isn't to say big studios ignore the DTV market. The majors have long seen DTV as a dumping ground for films they thought might flop theatrically; recently New Line demoted Theodore Rex, an excruciatingly whimsical comedy about future cop Whoopi Goldberg and her dinosaur partner, to a video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THERE'S GOLD IN THAT THERE SCHLOCK | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

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