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...goals from Yale's Meg Sullivan spelled doom for the Crimson (4-2-1, 1-1-0 Ivy), the last one coming four minutes into the overtime period...

Author: By Will Bohlen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Soccer's Ivy Streak Halted in Double-OT | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...Holly's siblings are older than she ever got to be, and Einhorn's arrest brought bittersweet satisfaction. Meg wants to see Einhorn in court because "I want him to look into my eyes and see what the future of Holly could have been." After the arrest, Elisabeth headed to the cemetery where her parents are buried on either side of Holly. "I want to put some roses on their graves and tell them, 'We got the bastard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SEARCH FOR THE UNICORN | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...hiatus from moviemaking led him to actress Phoebe Cates, who was working on a play at New York's Public Theater when Kline was rehearsing Henry V there in 1984. The two had met briefly before at an early reading of The Big Chill, where Cates performed the Meg Tilly role. But it wasn't until Kline hired Cates' former personal assistant as his own--and gave her the job of securing a date with Cates as her first official task--that their relationship began. The couple married three weeks before Kline won his Oscar. Now, eight years later, Kline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CLOSET HAMLET | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...condemned to perform his superhuman feats as a way of atonement. There's a lesson here, maybe, about the disproportion between human ability--mental or muscular--and our capacity for moral reflection. But in the movie the tormented demigod becomes "Herc," an ultra-buff teenage superstar who adores "Meg" and addresses the Great Goddess Hera as "Mom." Maybe Disney didn't realize that Socrates was forced to drink hemlock for impieties far milder than that. What next? Medea, who kills her own sons after Jason jilts her, as a perky homecoming queen who struggles with low self-esteem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT A CUTE UNIVERSE YOU HAVE! | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...discovery: a cub becomes a lion; a mermaid becomes a maid; a geek kid becomes a Greek god. Hercules (voiced by Tate Donovan) is your basic mythic hybrid--half man, half deity--recast as a clumsy teen. Superman-strong and Bambi-naive, Herc is an ideal foil for wily Meg (a subtle siren, wonderfully voiced by Susan Egan). She plays Barbara Stanwyck to his Eddie Bracken, while a gruff satyr (Danny DeVito) acts as Herc's mentor and parries the anti-Olympus scheming of Hades (James Woods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A HIT FROM A MYTH | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

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