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...Good Will Hunting. Here, though, he is a plodder. Pasty white among the bronze gods of Mongibello, striding stiffly, with nerdy glasses adorning his pinched face, Damon could more easily be mistaken for the creepy losers Hoffman usually plays (in Boogie Nights or Happiness) than for a patrician hunk like Dickie. The deglamorizing of Ripley pays off beautifully in his final meeting with Freddie, who sees through Tom's sham, quickly spotting the poseur's lapses of taste and showing a delicious upper-class contempt for a real nobody trying to be a fake somebody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Can Matt Play Ripley's Game? | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...TIME science reporter Janice Horowitz cautions that while speculating on medical cures can be as tempting as a hunk of cheddar to a mouse, the public shouldn't get trapped into generalizing about research performed on mice. "What goes on with lab mice is many, many steps away from what goes on with humans," says Horowitz. "And the work we're doing now with gene therapy is only the tip of the iceberg. It'll be a long time before these things pan out into medical cures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Researchers Take Heart From Manipulated Mice | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...fervent male desire. We've always assumed, it occurred to me, that the attraction Perelman held for such women was, not to put too fine a point on it, $4.2 billion. Was his Times quote meant to indicate otherwise? Was Ron Perelman positioning himself to be considered a hunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: She Likes Ron for Ron! | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...suffered a bit from being so good-looking that he became known mainly as a hunk. It was hard to play ball with him in the summer, when he always seemed ready to take off his shirt, because of the gawkers that would gather. But I was always surprised more by his solid common sense and the depth of his reflectiveness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Joy of Not Being Jaded | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

What an absolutely beautiful photograph! Tom's a hunk; Nicole is lovely; and together they are gorgeous. You'll probably get lots of complaints, but the cover made shivers run down my spine! PATRICE BINGHAM OFFENHAUSER Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 26, 1999 | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

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