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...sketched in Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff. Played by Sam Shepard in the movie, Yeager inspired the film's strongest image: the sooty phoenix emerging from the desert after bailing out of his burning plane. Now 62, the real Yeager stars in auto-parts commercials as a persuasive Mr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Breaking the Celebrity Barrier: YEAGER | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...country go forward without a sound economic plan?" he asked. Reagan exhorted the legislators to settle their differences before Aug. 2, when Congress takes a month-long recess. At the end of the hour-long talk, House Speaker Tip O'Neill shook Reagan's hand and said, "Mr. President, you look good." Reagan shot back, "I'll feel better when I get a budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming Along Just Fine | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...traffic cops wear the same black serge, receive the same salary and hand out the same tickets. Until ten years ago, television was not permitted by a government that regarded it as immoral and dangerously subversive. Today whites watch The A Team and The Bill Cosby Show and buy Mr. T dolls for their children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Rage, White Fist | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...circulated for days. Rock Hudson, it was said, was suffering from liver cancer and slipping in and out of a coma at the American Hospital in the Paris suburb of Neuilly. Reality was more shocking than rumor. At the hospital last week, a spokeswoman for the actor bluntly announced, "Mr. Rock Hudson has acquired immune deficiency syndrome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: AIDS: A Spreading Scourge | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...there, boys and girls. Golly, I'm sorry, but I've been so busy out here in Hollywood that I forgot to tell you all about my first feature film, Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird. Lots of our friends on Sesame Street helped me in the picture, and Mr. Snuffleupagus deserves an Oscar nomination for his sniffly farewell scene. I'm sure the other stars like Chevy Chase, John Candy and Sandra Bernhard join me in that sentiment. I think that with those little suggestions I made, the script really works now. I just loved the idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 5, 1985 | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

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