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...will be your body of work? What will you leave behind?" he says. And his oeuvre is, frankly, spotty. No one can take away Mork & Mindy; Good Morning, Vietnam; or his Oscar for Good Will Hunting. But Williams is a recovering schmaltzaholic, having engaged in a dangerous number of Patch Adams- and Mrs. Doubtfire-type roles. As therapy, apart from performing before 39 live audiences in 26 cities over the next two months, he's beating a woman to death in rural Alaska (in Insomnia, with Al Pacino), plotting the downfall of a TV rival (in Death to Smoochy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can The Real Robin Still Stand Up? | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...Winners DR. "PATCH" ADAMS Clown doctor administers the gift of laughter to hospitalized Afghan children. His favorite kind of audience: people strapped in beds MOHAMMED ZAHIR SHAH Exiled Afghan King confirms he'll return to the country after 29 years. Turn right at Iran and look for a really big pile of bombed-out rubble ELIZABETH DOLE Robo-lady begins candidacy for Senate, gets fund raising help from Dubya. On their wedding day, she and Bob vowed to run for anything Losers JAY LENO TV host in trouble after he cracks a joke about South Korean dog eating. Other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

Unlike Allston Landing, convenient to the Yard and HBS, there is a second large, contiguous patch of property—a busy shopping center with a Star Market, a K-Mart, and a Petco—deeper in Allston...

Author: By Lauren R. Dorgan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Allston Property Poses Challenges, Possibilities | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...Another patch that Kelly had on Astaire: his movies were far superior as integrated works of popular art. Astaire?s prime-time vehicles with Ginger were pretty inane, except for the glorious terping, and his directors added little but traffic management to the packed Astaire brought. Kelly worked for better directors - Busby Berkeley on "For Me and My Gal" and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," Vincente Minnelli on "An American in Paris" and "Brigadoon" - but, as co-director of two of his best films, he could take a measure of credit for their success, even as Astaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Dancin? Man | 3/2/2002 | See Source »

Canadian Hockey Association President Bob Nicholson did his best to patch the discord created by the controversy with a message of unity...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: U.S., Canada Deny Flag-Stomping Rumors | 2/27/2002 | See Source »

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