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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When his star catcher threatens to quit the team, complaining that the game is too hard, manager Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) snaps, "It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Girls Of Summer | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

Of such stuff is the end of TV eras made. It has been nine months since Johnny Carson became America's most famous lame duck by announcing that he would retire from the Tonight show this year, at the end of his 30th season. Now, as the long-awaited finale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And What a Reign It Was | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

But Bonfire had its crape custom tailored. Consider the casting, on both sides of the screen. Producer Peter Guber and screenwriter Michael Cristofer, who had earlier coarsened John Updike's novel The Witches of Eastwick, were the wrong gents to midwife Wolfe's book. So was De Palma, whose vision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Goner from the Git-Go | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

Some studios, like Warner, will now avoid "overpackaged" films that are chock-full of stars. Case in point: Warner's The Bonfire of the Vanities, the $35 million fiasco starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith. Other studios, notably Universal Pictures, are stressing "back-end" deals, in which such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Wonders | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

The ponytail of the past, held back with an elastic band, has been joined by plaits, queues and thin, razor-cut hanks of eccentric design. Gary Margolis, 45, director of a counseling center at Vermont's Middlebury College, believes that hair has once again become a font of Zen expressionism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Long and Short of It | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

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