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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every weekend, he and I and other Crimeds would hit the basement, sifting through paper, with the sounds of the Boss or the Forrest Gump soundtrack blaring in the background...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Not-So-Desultory Philippic | 12/14/1996 | See Source »

...first Vietnam veteran elected to the Senate, Pressler, chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, distinguished himself on the Hill for winning a historic battle to rewrite the nation's communications law. Though called by a national magazine "the Forrest Gump of legislators" for his notorious miscues (he once mistook a closet door for an exit), Pressler's Rhodes Scholar background will likely see him through this tough race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: SOUTH DAKOTA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Moviegoers have been singing Tom Hanks' tune for most of the '90s. A League of Their Own, Sleepless in Seattle, Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, Toy Story--each movie has been a surprise hit, proof of Hanks' intelligence, craft and lopsided likability. Now Hollywood wonders, What can the guy do wrong...

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

...attend Rules seminars and forking over $250 an hour for phone consultations with authors Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider--neither of whom is a credentialed anything. In Hollywood, where last week the book hit No. 1 on the Los Angeles Times paperback best-seller list, producer Wendy Finerman (Forrest Gump) has optioned movie rights to The Rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAYING HARD TO GET | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...attraction on Prodigy, despite the page's lack of advertising, graphics, sound, color or flashing pyrotechnics. Or maybe as a result: Walter Miller's Home Page is just writing, hilarious writing, in the long tradition of lowbrow American satire. Think of Huck Finn, Forrest Gump and Beavis and Butt-head all channeled through the persona of a 20-year-old, acne-speckled, "boy-gennius programmer in the booming computer industry." Walter Miller's Home Page is little more than misspelled accounts of his exploits, posted to the Web each month. "I guess I'm the product of the pubblic schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEB'S ANONYMOUS | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

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