Word: newsfolk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Terms of Endearment -- his first film as writer-director, which in 1984 earned him three Oscars, including one for Best Picture -- begins with the birth of the Debra Winger character and ends after her death. Broadcast News, his delicately furious 1987 comedy about network infotainment, opens when the star newsfolk are kids and ends seven years after the climax. His ultimate film would be the life story of everyone on this planet -- painful emotional reality, but with great jokes. As a writer and a guy, he can imagine nothing worse than abandonment. "Until recently," he observes, "just saying that word...