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...only viable one. Should it be found that active smokers tend to live longer than sedentary non-smokers, our treasured liberty to do nothing may go the way of our liberty to smoke. Televisions could join alcohol and cigarettes by getting their very own "sin" tax. One American icon, the couch potato, might join another, the Marlboro Man, as a target of paternalism...
...crisis, people condense into their essential selves. O.J. Simpson was, essentially, a very great runner. That was how a bowlegged kid with rickets escaped the slums where he was born, how a football superstar had become a national icon, always outrunning his obstacles, finding daylight where there wasn't any. "I'll tell you," he used to say, "my speed has always been my best weapon. So if I can't run away from whatever it is, I don't need to be there...
Maybe technology isn't changing our lives faster than ever, but it certainly seems that way. Did Clarence Birdseye become the richest man in the world? Appear four times on TIME's cover? Did he become, as Bill Gates has, a cultural icon, right up there with the beautiful princess who died with her lover in a car crash in Paris...
...auteur Paul Thomas Anderson says, Reynolds was more than "the coolest guy on the planet"; in Deliverance and Starting Over, "Burt also had great chops as an actor." The athletic grace, caged intensity and wounded dignity are on display in Boogie Nights, but so is Reynolds' status as '70s icon--once tarnished, now burnished...
Even for Burt Reynolds--once and forever movie star, icon and damn fine actor--there are things in life besides an Oscar...