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...career criminals (James Woods and Melanie Griffith) adopt a young couple (Vincent Kartheiser and Natasha Gregson Wagner) into la dolce venom. There's a droll tough love in this inversion of Father Knows Best, where Dad is given to arias of rage, Mom kills people, Bud and Princess do junk. The tone is naturalism run amuck: two-ton emoting, closeups of syringes in groins. Enough! But it's fun to see a scene stealer like Woods go bananas. Here he goes a bunch of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Another Day In Paradise | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer comes with an e-mail product, Outlook Express, that automatically sorts out junk mail and puts in the trash. Trouble is, the filter sometimes mistakes legitimate correspondence for spam, and that's what's been happening to the digital Christmas cards that people have been sending via Blue Mountain. Microsoft was ordered to provide Blue Mountain by Tuesday with whatever information it needed to bypass the overzealous filter -- which, ironically, trashes Microsoft e-cards too -- and must post warnings on the product alerting users to the potential for lost mail. Microsoft had tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microsoft: You've Got Mail After All | 12/23/1998 | See Source »

Decades ago, Alfred Hitchcock said actors were cattle. Today celebrities are meat: junk food for tabloid headlines, canapes for cocktail-party surmise, fodder for Leno and Letterman raillery. Are the charges, whispers and gags true? Hardly matters; they need only be entertaining. Star tattle proceeds from two American impulses: cynicism and sentimentality. Sentimentally we imagine that a popular artist must have hidden depths. Cynically we suspect that every star must have a guilty secret; all that power, money and spare time allow them to act out any sick whim. Gossip has become the purest form of show biz, a story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...they're right. I bought my first Millennia two years ago and a second this year, ordering through the micronpc.com website. It's the king of PCs. The machine is solid--no tinny clicks and clatters when it does its microprocessing--and it never fails, no matter how much junk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Her Way and Mine | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...mailings were located to the right of the mailboxes, in a row of cubbies that normally house junk mail. Superintendent of Lowell House Jay W. Coveney said it is standard procedure for mass mailings without names to be placed in the cubbies...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Alum Promotes Christianity, Sexual Purity in Mailing to Lowell House | 12/15/1998 | See Source »

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