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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brittan legitimized European concern that the influx of American culture will rival Europe economically. He focused on Hollywood films as an example...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IOP Hosts European Union Speaker | 3/19/1998 | See Source »

Harvard has produced numerous business leaders, government officials, and even a few Hollywood personalities. One thing that Harvard has not produced many of, however, is sports legends...

Author: By Will Bohlen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Sport Legend Remembers Glory Days | 3/18/1998 | See Source »

Movies such as L.A. Confidential and Good will Hunting make Hollywood better by putting new plot twists onto the list of money-making ideas. To encourage writers to continue producing original works, the Academy Awards should honor those who dare to be different. If we reward the banality of films like Titanic with such high distinction, writers will have no reason to deviate from tried-and-true themes. The current trend in movie-making--spending millions of dollars on explosions and scenery to obscure trite plots--will continue to dominate the silver screen...

Author: By Alex Carter, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/18/1998 | See Source »

...such luck for Clinton. What we get now is movies in which the President is a man in thrall to his own libidinal fumblings, Commander in Chief of the banana republic. Maybe the Gennifer Flowers episode of Clinton's '92 campaign gave Hollywood the psychic go-ahead it needed to make an assault on old pieties about the presidency. The very next year the movies gave us Dave. That was the one in which Kevin Kline is an amiable presidential look-alike who fills in when the real President (named Bill!) is sidelined by a stroke that he suffered while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All The Presidents' Movies | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...Maverick/Warner Bros.) should rightly make thinking people pause. Didn't she, from the very start, insist that we love her, demand that we worship her golden calves, her exposed iconic midriff, her conical Jean-Paul Gaultier bras? Didn't she, Marilyn-like, pursue the starring role in Evita, and Hollywood thespianhood in general, with .45-cal. ambition? Wasn't that she on the back cover of her 1992 shock-pop album Erotica sucking on some stranger's foot? Isn't she the original Material Girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Heading For The Light | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

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