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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With that theme of loving losers--even Charlie Brown's baseball idol, Joe Shlabotnik, was the worst player in the pros--came the corollary, losing at love. Every major character has an unrequited love--Charlie Brown and the little red-haired girl, Lucy and Schroeder, Linus and Miss Othmar. Even Snoopy got dumped at the altar. Happiness may be a warm puppy, but as Schulz once said, "Happiness is not very funny." Schulz infused the strips with his lifelong feelings of depression and insecurity--he had his heart broken by a real-life red-haired girl--and they showed, Camus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Good and the Grief | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...before directing Returns, Burton made Edward Scissorhands, which stands to date as his most unusual, as well as his most personal, work. This fairy tale involves a mad scientist (played by Burton's idol, Vincent Price) creating a simulacrum of a young man (Johnny Depp) in his laboratory. He gives the boy scissors for hands until he can finish his work but dies before attaching the new hands. The boy lives a lonely life in the castle until he is discovered by an Avon lady (Dianne West), who takes him home to the pastel-colored suburbia below. The boy, dubbed...

Author: By Jason F. Clarke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Weird, Weird World: A Burton Backtrack | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...Along with Gilbert and Sullivan, Vaux credits Led Zeppelin as an early musical idol...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Jamming with Prof. Vaux | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...palpable love of the game. The son of a Spanish golf pro and a woman who worked in the clubhouse shop, Sergio was, only five months ago, an unknown amateur. Now, after a sensational summer campaign in Europe and a thrilling debut at the PGA Championship, he is an idol at home and a phenomenon worldwide. "I just want to play golf and enjoy myself," he says. "I know if I play well, I'll have enough money, so I don't really care about that." He prefers to be known, soccer-like, by one name, Sergio. "I love this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sergio's First Stand | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

NAME: Tina ("Don't Call Me Nancy") Sinatra OCCUPATION: Onetime pop idol's daughter BEST PUNCH: Angered by the unauthorized use of her father's image, she has threatened legal action to stop the production, alleging it potentially violates several of the original Pack's rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 30, 1999 | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

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