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...avid reader of PEOPLE, but until a few weeks ago, I didn't know what Mavis Leno looked like. The wife of Jay Leno is an aggressive homebody, and for all the outside world knew of her, she might as well have been wrapped in a burka, the full-body shroud Afghan women are forced to wear. But she's emerged to give voice to those very women. "Silence," she says, "is killing" the women of Afghanistan, where the Taliban, an extreme faction of mujahedin, largely composed of Lord of the Flies-like boy soldiers, swept to power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Wrapped Up with Nowhere to Go | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...each day Leno drives to the cramped offices of the Feminist Majority Foundation in her blue BMW in which the red engine light keeps coming on (she says Jay coddles only his vintage cars). She recruited Linda Bloodworth-Thomason (creator of Designing Women) to help grab attention for Afghan women. Together, they battled compassion fatigue to mount a $150- per-head buffet dinner with more than 100 A-list names. Despite Leno's spending 12-hour days on the phone, performers and guests were dropping out days before the March 29 event ("You mean Sally Field's not coming? Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Wrapped Up with Nowhere to Go | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...directorial career, maybe this is a quirky suicide note. For the actors, it's no big whoop. Young stars need to be in at least one dumb ugly movie like this one. Next year it'll make a cute-embarrassing story to tell Jay Leno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Atti-Toon | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...AMERICANA] Two high school bands; big photos of Dole with Reagan, Jay Leno and various military types...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Born to Run | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

Obscure Alaskan Senator TED STEVENS appears on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 15, 1999 | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

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