Word: good
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demands on him are staggering." Costner is aware of the challenge. "I know I can do better with relationships with my family, and I have to figure out how," he confesses. "There's just not enough time for the people I care about. I'm a good dad -- when I'm at home. But when I'm away, my motel-room walls aren't lined with pictures of my family. Maybe something is wrong with me, but I separate things in order to keep exploring who I am. It's a high-class set of problems that cut into...
...current image as a Goody Two-Cleats. "Revenge is shocking, vulgar, a bit of a fall from grace," Costner says. "But I have no problem playing a man who isn't likable, as long as I understand him. Revenge is strong medicine; you won't come out feeling good. That's O.K. too. You don't have to have a snow cone at the end of every movie. Right now, I don't know how this one will do. I don't make broad claims on the playground, and I don't do it with movies. That's beyond...
...surprising to me that I'm making a movie on this theme: about America and Americans. Directing isn't an exercise in control, not a growing-up or a breaking-out phase. Of course I'm anxious. I'm not sure I'll do a good job. It's not that I'm worried about the people around me. I just want to make sure that my camera tells the story...
...GOOD TIMES by Russell Baker (Morrow; $19.95). What propelled Baker from the childhood he so memorably described in Growing Up (1982) to his present distinction as a columnist for the New York Times? Here is the answer, in a winsome memoir of his early newspapering days, including big-league stints in London and Washington...
...JOHN: IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD (Warner Bros.). When jazz meets up with rhythm and blues, it's usually less a shoot-out than a sellout: one or the other gets sold short. Dr. John, a surgical master at the piano and a good, gruff vocalizer, is one physician with a solid prescription to do both styles right -- and proud...