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...Taylor (Gary Sinise). And wherever he is, he bumps into famous people: George Wallace and Richard Nixon, J.F.K. and L.B.J., Elvis and John Lennon (all integrated onscreen with Hanks through ingenious special effects). Almost everyone Forrest knows dies. He survives, through his goodness and the miracle of idiot grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: The World According to Gump | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

...Hall of Fame, like the Miss America Pageant or the Mount Rushmore sculptures, was essentially a Chamber of Commerce inspiration to lure tourists. But when the Hall opened in 1939, it became a secular shrine, the Lourdes of baseball. It still is. The place evokes a simpler time of grace and grit and innocence, when players didn't seem so greedy or owners so stupid and when both sides apparently realized that the franchise they held was on loan from the fans who had invested so much of themselves in it. This vision is partly fantasy -- the sport excluded blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: Baseball: Willie, Mickey and...the Scooter? | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

Bridget Fonda plays Yvonne with simplicity and grace. She is one of the few actresses today who can play unpretentious, down-to-Earth women without being affected in any way. Fonda was so convincing you almost wonder if she is acting...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Bergman Happens To Find a Great Duo | 7/29/1994 | See Source »

...broken. And to fix it quick. "When you're staring down the gun barrel of a release date," says Robert Towne, whose uncredited work on Bonnie and Clyde, The Godfather and other films has made him chief surgeon in the Script Doctors' Clinic, fixing a film amounts to "grace under fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Miracle Surgery | 7/25/1994 | See Source »

...1950s style. As usual, Hitchcock centers this subplot around a mysterious, gruesome murder. Just be sure to catch Hitchcock's cameo as the composer/neighbor's butler. The big screen does not do this film justice with its unusual shadows and angles. And besides, who wouldn't want to see Grace Kelly ten feet high, with her arching eyebrows, beautifully curving lips, VO5 commercial rich hair...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Look Out For 'Rear Window' | 7/22/1994 | See Source »

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