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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Born in Oklahoma to an acting family, Howard made his stage debut at age 2 in a production of The Seven Year Itch directed by his father. Even during his days as TV's freckle-faced icon of small-town Americana, he was starting to learn the filmmaking craft. While in his teens, he won second prize in a Kodak-sponsored movie contest and briefly attended film school at the University of Southern California. Still, Hollywood was wary when Howard tried to move behind the camera. "When I set up Night Shift, most studio executives didn't want...
That wig, those glasses, that cadaverous pallor, it's . it's . DAVID BOWIE. The singer, whose own efforts at painting have not yet been accorded the critical attention Andy Warhol's drew, is playing the pop icon in a film about painter Jean Michel Basquiat, a Warhol protaga. And what an art-ridden affair it is. The film was written and is being directed by painter Julian Schnabel. Art collector DENNIS HOPPER plays collector-dealer Bruno Bischofberger, who marketed Basquiat to the world. Only Jeffrey Wright, who plays Basquiat, has no art-world ties. "This is the first nondocumentary film...
...with Cuba. Douglas Waller, TIME national security correspondent, says the State Department is under pressure to seek a lesser quid pro quo rather than lose such a high profile fugitive. Still, Waller adds: "The Vesco case is 23 years old, and he's not Michael Milken. He's an icon of a past generation of greed...
...really thought we could bring in a new society. Changes were happening so fast, and we assumed things would just keep changing. You know, 'if you want to end wars and stuff, you got to sing real loud," she continues, quoting icon singer Arlo Guthrie...
Windows 95 has also straightened out some of the most annoying aspects of everyday computer use, from plugging in a new printer to communicating over a tangled corporate network. On Windows 95, you can instantly see the whole network just by clicking twice on an icon labeled Network Neighborhood. That brings up a map of all the computers in the "neighborhood,'' which you can get into simply by clicking on them (provided you have the necessary passwords). This may not sound like much, but when corporate network administrators see it, they will think they have died and gone to computer...