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While Florence Griffith Joyner was on stage introducing the various acts participating in the Harvard Cultural Rythyms show on Sunday, two little girls from the Mission Hill projects were talking about their Olympic idol...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Flipping for FloJo | 2/28/1989 | See Source »

Like Brooke Shields and Jodie Foster, teen idol Salenger has replaced Hollywood scripts with Ivy League textbooks...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: From Box Office to Books: Salenger Off Camera | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

...Robert Downey, Jr.) as the investigate the eight-year-old case of a gang-murder in Chinatown. Woods plays a jaded lawyer who was once a great civil-rights attorney, and Downey portrays an idealistic young law-school graduate who has come to New York to work for his idol, Dodd. True, Dodd has done nothing for the past ten years but defend drug dealers, but somehow Baron is unaware of this fact. Yet it doesn't matter, for with his perky attitude and strong moral consciousness Baron has no problem convincing Dodd to give up the drug work...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Not Just a 9-to-5 Job | 2/10/1989 | See Source »

...Wilton North Report (yet another late-night failure). A Cleveland native, Hall started his show-biz career as a stand-up comic and became host of the TV series Solid Gold. But he claims he has wanted to do a talk show since age twelve: he calls Carson his "idol" and, like Johnny, was a child magician. When Paramount TV initially offered him his own show, Hall was reluctant, but he had a vision as a guest with Carson. "During a commercial, he and I were comparing coin tricks," he says, "and I realized that it was my mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: And Now, Nice-Guy Talk Hosts | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...Amadou Dia Ba at the wire to set a new Olympic record of 47.19 sec. "When the race is over," Moses said later from the sidelines, "that's when you know you can't do it." But the bronze medalist -- whom Phillips praised as "my motivation, my incentive, my idol" -- insisted he would not quit the sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic On the Track | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

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