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...products from the 100 or so licensees, which include action figures, shagadelic-shaker alcohol mixers, inflatable furniture, an Austin-inspired fragrance and an authorized Swedish penis enlarger. There's also a new version of the Clue board game, a near life-size doll of Dr. Evil's tiny henchman Mini-Me and a talking watch that barks phrases like "Throw me a frickin' bone here!" Kicking in additional millions for promotional tie-ins are half a dozen companies, ranging from Virgin Atlantic airlines to Heineken beer. Next spring there will be a prime-time HBO cartoon series. "We want this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Austin's Power | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...their avarice and lets us guess who will survive. Pam Grier's title character is a flight attendant running money from Mexico to California for her drug boss Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson), who is variously inconvenienced by his lazily taunting girlfriend (Bridget Fonda), his low-IQ henchman (Robert De Niro), an eager fed (Michael Keaton) and an aging bail bondsman (Robert Forster), whose creased face is a road map of disappointment in the venality of humankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: DECK THE PLEX WITH TARANTINO | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

Ritter insisted in an interview that his reputation as a Noriega henchman is undeserved--that he remained in the Noriega government only to help negotiate the general's departure. As for the drug charge, he says that while he was Panama's ambassador to Colombia in 1986, he sold a car to an auto agency that he only later learned was owned by a drug lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CANAL CRONIES | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

HOSPITALIZED. UDAY HUSSEIN, 32, temperamental eldest son and henchman of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein; reportedly in stable condition after would-be assassins ambushed his car; in Baghdad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 23, 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...pure reason. For Neil is placing impossible demands on himself, on his associates, on a chance universe in which they inhabit one of the chancier corners. He can't prevent himself from falling in love (with Amy Brenneman's innocent bookstore clerk). He can't prevent his most valuable henchman and his wife (Val Kilmer and Ashley Judd) from marital misbehavior that threatens his enterprise. He can't, in general, prevent blighted human nature from scribbling all over his neat blueprints. This leaves him vulnerable to a policeman--nice irony here--who is more accepting of the world's anarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: DUEL IN THE BLANKNESS | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

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