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Word: offscreen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that went into The Matrix, no one could make violence as beautiful as Lee's. He had a cockiness that passed for charisma. And when he whooped like a crane, jumped in the air and simultaneously kicked two bad guys into unconsciousness, all while punching out two others mostly offscreen, you knew the real Lee could do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gladiator BRUCE LEE | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

DIED. OLIVER REED, 61, hard-drinking British actor; after falling ill in a bar; in Valetta, Malta. Best known for his early roles in Women in Love, Oliver! and The Three Musketeers, Reed cultivated with great vigor a bad-guy image offscreen, referring to himself as a "tawdry character who explodes now and again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 17, 1999 | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...offscreen witchiness, Doherty reports that with 14-to-18-hour days on the set, she has little time for anything but sleep. "I just go home," she says--more proof that the '90s are all but over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: This Time, She's a Good Witch | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

Barrymore has done some maturing offscreen as well. "I'm becoming that dork I couldn't stand when I was a kid," she says, while diving into a Korean dinner of barbecued mushrooms. "One Saturday night I found myself watching The Capital Gang on CNN. I was like, 'Oh my God! What is going on, and who have I become?'" Anyone who's ever read a tabloid knows how Drew--granddaughter of acting legend John Barrymore--bounced back from prepubescent drug and alcohol problems to become a sober-but-still-free-spirited teenage wild child. She doesn't regret much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Too Good To Be Drew? | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

...know what's about to happen, but I'm going to introduce someone--Mr. Roy Rogers." The audience stood for a minute and a half. The chill factor was high. Everyone I've met who knew this man has spoken only words of praise. I think who he was, offscreen as well as on, is why Roy Rogers will always remain the "King of the Cowboys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: ROY ROGERS | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

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