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...musical rivals of Prince's back in junior high school, and have gone on to some substantial success of their own by producing the last two top-selling Janet Jackson albums. But in Graffiti Bridge they are called on to re-enact the old adolescent competition. Prince bests them, natch. As a colleague explains, "Prince wrote the script, pulled in the money, directed and used his own studios. How could we expect a different ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Still Thriving on Home Turf | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...from light-emitting diode boxes, and even carved in stone: EATING TOO MUCH IS CRIMINAL, for instance, or ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE. In the late '70s, after graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, Holzer was smitten by an insight. To subvert the slow and, natch, "elitist" way in which art tends to find an audience, she started writing short slogans and leaving them in public places for people to read. "If you want to reach a general audience," she proclaimed, "it's not art issues that are going to compel them to stop on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Sampler of Witless Truisms | 7/30/1990 | See Source »

...there is an easy and equitable racial mix among thrashers. Rivalry seems to occur along geographical, not blood, lines. Eastern skateboarders smart about skateboarding's being seen as another sunny fad from Southern California, while the folks on the West Coast tend to rise above the controversy -- smoothly, natch -- as if they were crackin' an Ollie (standing on the board and bouncing straight into the air) over a large fire hydrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Irresistible Lure Of Grabbing Air | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...Frye's script offers a careering trip through the East Coast Nighttown previously explored by Desperately Seeking Susan, After Hours and Blue Velvet. Solid Citizen Jeff Daniels meets Madcap Airhead Melanie Griffith and in a trice is stripped, handcuffed, kidnaped, beaten up and plied with big wet licky kisses. Natch, he goes for it. "What are you gonna do," Melanie asks, "now that you've seen how the other half lives . . . the other half of you." Daniels holds together better than the movie, which lurches from romance to farce to terror. Only Ray Liotta, as a crew-cut sadist, blends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Desperately Seeking Something | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...glitz and no substance, all money and no meaning--he is, of course, an arbitrageur who lives in an apartment packed with high-tech goodies. We get a hint of his life when Basinger's character searches his closet to find rows of perfectly tailored charcoal-grey suits and, natch, a Harvard Magazine (hey, Harvard grads, you too can live like this...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Poor Form | 3/21/1986 | See Source »

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