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...punkish hairdo, nose-tackle musculature and down-home insolence give BILLY RAY CYRUS the look of one of those roadhouse dudes Thelma and Louise ought to blast into the next county. But when this rockabilly baritone swivels out of his shirt while performing his sing-along smash, Achy Breaky Heart, the ladies wilt. In three months Cyrus, 30, has rocketed from nowhere (or the nearest thing: Flatwoods, Ky.) to No. 1 on the pop charts. Is this Elvis? Bruce? Actually, neither. Aside from Achy Breaky, Cyrus has only one memorable song -- the sour-grapes rouser Could've Been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Jun. 22, 1992 | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

With his kitchen-knife physique, sour face and a hairdo resembling a road-kill toupee, Lyle Lovett looks like a serial killer in Southern Baptist preacher's garb. That must be what inspired Robert Altman to cast the singer as a spooky detective in The Player. Anatomy is destiny in modern show biz, so it doesn't hurt Lovett that he looks like his songs. He could be a death-row denizen musing about the ends of life and love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lone Star Gothic | 6/15/1992 | See Source »

...strip joint in my film and the close-up of a decrepit stripper's knee give off echoes of Sweet Charity. Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull is a film that means the world to me, and when you first see Cathy Moriarty here, she's wearing the upswept hairdo from Raging Bull." In the audience's mind -- which blends past and present, actress and character -- Moriarty can walk out of Jake La Motta's life and into Cesar Castillo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arne Glimcher, Ole! | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...near her. She was rejected every time she applied for medical insurance -- even to cover the cost of bearing a child. And vivid memories of the childhood terror still flood back whenever she goes for a checkup and sees the same woman in the black pumps and beehive hairdo who administered the chemotherapy a quarter- century earlier. "I just stare and stare at her," says Euton. "I can't help myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Against Cancer | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...Governor, she has personally wooed the lawmakers, inviting them to breakfasts and lunches at the Governor's Greek-revival mansion. She talked state representative Pete Laney into releasing a lottery bill from his committee on state affairs by plying him with bagels and doughnuts. Her snow-white bouffant hairdo and folksy charm have become familiar at committee hearings, in which she often testifies. "The legislature is excited because at long last they're being paid attention to," says Richards' press secretary Bill Cryer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ann Richards: Winds Of Change Sweep The Lone Star State | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

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