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...Colin Powell's persona invites instinctive trust. We feel safe in his hands as we watch him on TV, and find ourselves subliminally imagining James Earl Jones - not the Darth Vader version, but rather the stern but loving father figure of "Field of Dreams" or "The Lion King." That quality which once made Powell so attractive as a possible presidential candidate will probably also make his confirmation hearing one of those festivals of bipartisan deference usually reserved only for Alan Greenspan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will America Still Love Colin Powell? | 1/10/2001 | See Source »

...call around noon Los Angeles time a few weeks ago to be told that he'd won the New York Film Critics Circle's Best Supporting Actor prize for his performance as a Mexican narc in "Traffic," the 33-year-old emitted something like a growl. The new lion of Hollywood is a late sleeper and, he says, "I'm not a happy camper when I get woken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Boffo Actors Worth Checking Out | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...Toro will face the challenge Cage did: to focus his danger, his eye-catching weirdness, without losing it. Or he might follow his instincts and go even wilder - become the first leading madman. "Hopefully I'll get more opportunity to do things that will challenge me," says the young lion. "Hopefully I'm getting my freedom, coming out of the cage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Boffo Actors Worth Checking Out | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...town in Montana where every winter all the parks were flooded and turned into skating rinks. So I've been skating since I was 11. But I never really skated. My only skills were to stop and go, though I'll admit fences and snowbanks always did the lion's share of the stopping work. So I felt oddly homesick on the first lesson when everyone came to a crashing halt by slamming into the wall. (Stopping wasn't covered until lesson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Continuing Education: Learning to Skate--but Not Like Her | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...amusingly vexed at losing his identity. It could be called Dude, Where's My Karma? The cast, especially Spade (we keep wanting to call him David Snide) and Warburton, give bounce and sass to a script full of clever ideas. You won't find the emotional grandeur of The Lion King here, but that's O.K. Emperor doesn't aim too high or strain too hard; it is at ease inhabiting its pretty, miniature realm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Twelve Films Of Christmas | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

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