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Gump has warmed the collective heart of moviegoers; they spread the word, command their friends to go. They storm music stores for the two-CD album, featuring 32 songs from the rock era. They snap up copies of Winston Groom's 1986 novel, on which the film was based, and copies of Gumpisms: The Wit and Wisdom of Forrest Gump, a pocket-size book of aphorisms from the novel. Then they run back to the theater to relive the experience. "It makes you look at things in a better way than you used to," says W. Bart Edwards, a Gainsville...

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

Hanks is a kid again in director Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump. Slow-witted and likable, Forrest races through the rubble of the '50s, '60s and '70s. Thanks to novelist Winston Groom's cunning plot (Eric Roth wrote the script) and some nifty visual effects, Forrest pops up in many a historic venue: with George Wallace at the schoolhouse door, in the seared rice fields of Vietnam, along the Great Wall of China, at the Watergate Hotel during a third-rate burglary. As his mother and his pals die around him, he pursues his life's love; the movie might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Hollywood's Last Decent Man | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

...most critical part of Eric Roth's adaptation of Winston Groom's novel of the same name is the setting. This film could happen nowhere else but in the South...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Mama Says, 'Forrest Gump Is a Good Movie' | 7/8/1994 | See Source »

...alcohol and tobacco. Monica (Julie Walters), the divorced mother of the bride, is all domestic bustle, dark thoughts held at bay by her many tasks -- remaking her awful old wedding dress for her daughter, considering the canapes for the reception. Mrs. Monro (Joan Plowright), the mother of the groom, sleeps a lot, awakening to express in a rumbly purr her dismay with just about everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bourgeois, But No Bore | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

...outlawed the "gratitude fees" in commercial activity, government operations, education and almost every other aspect of Korean life. The scope of the legislation extends even to "wedding solicitations." By custom, when a couple is to be married, the families of the bride and groom send an announcement to everyone with whom they are even remotely familiar. The real purpose of the announcements, of course, is to solicit money to pay for the wedding...

Author: By Jay Kim, | Title: Greasing Korean Business | 11/2/1993 | See Source »

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