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...highly improbable protagonist's role -- Peter Pan grown up? Peter Pan, a Type A investment banker? -- it is hard to imagine anyone other than Robin Williams. After all, the arc of Hook's Peter Pan -- an impish, Dionysian youngster, after a painful struggle with worldly temptation, finds his family to be the source of true happiness -- is a pretty fair summary of Robin Williams' life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Peter Pan for Yuppies: ROBIN WILLIAMS | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...arms and upper body every other day. And the acting wasn't easy, either: in a 40-year-old man, Mary Martin feyness -- "Come on, Lost Boys!" -- could be awful. Williams says Bob Hoskins, who plays Hook's first mate, Smee, gave him a key piece of advice: make Pan ever so slightly insane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Peter Pan for Yuppies: ROBIN WILLIAMS | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...very sorry to advise you Pan American Airways has suspended operation. All flights are canceled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Grounded for Good | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...straightforward as that -- a recorded message greeting passengers when they called the Pan American World Airways reservation desk last Wednesday. After 64 years, the aviation pioneer was grounded for good. The airline's five unions had just agreed to $43 million in concessions, but that was not enough. Pan Am was counting on Delta Airlines for an additional $25 million. But Delta, which had come up with $115 million to keep Pan Am flying in recent weeks in exchange for 45% of the company, refused to pay any more. Desperate, Pan Am's lawyers and bankers scrambled fruitlessly for fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Grounded for Good | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...indictment of Libya in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland completely ignored significant evidence of Syrian involvement. Not only was Syria let off the hook, but Bush complained that Syria was getting a "bum rap" due to suspicion that it was involved in the mass murder...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: Empty Chairs at Empty Tables | 12/6/1991 | See Source »

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