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...Jer-Yuan Tsai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death and Deceit | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

Jerry Brown headed up to Washington State last month to campaign hard for the term-limitation proposal. But the locals, many of them irked by the outside pressure, firmly voted it down. It's an engraved invitation, Jer: Stay home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward Spin: Nov. 18, 1991 | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

...around, fall down, go cross-eyed or winsome in one more movie comedy. Comedy is a taxonomic term here, not evaluative. The only people laughing at Lewis' first film released since 1970 are in the movie-supporting players earning their keep by pampering the star-director-screenwriter. Jer, 55, is still the goony kid from the '50s, talking while eating a doughnut, parading in drag, leading a children's crusade through a Florida shopping mall. Hardly Working has grossed $10 million at the box office, in part because parents are taking tots to see "the original Jerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: May 25, 1981 | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

Chatworth's adventures in cultural schizophrenia start when he is nine. As World War II begins, his family moves to the U.S., where he enrolls in a New Jer sey boarding school. Robbed of sharing England's finest hour, young Pendrid must suffer a blitzing from unruly students who find his accent and manners fruity. His charades of Churchillian courage only complicate his humiliations. Back in postwar England, Chatworth once again finds himself a foreigner. There he plays the American with painful results. But in the U.S., Chatworth has tasted freedom from his crusty English Catholic past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Celebrity and Its Discontents | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...Jimmy Carter's confidant, factotum and campaign manager from the first, Hamilton Jordan, 32, can be described as the chief architect of his boss's campaign. In an interview with TIME Correspondent John Stacks, Jordan (pronounced Jer-din) discussed his winning strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Engineering the Victory | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

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