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...Tracey Jacobs, agrees. "It all starts with the screenplay," she says, "not the bottom line. Then he chooses directors and actors he likes." Among them--twice, including Depp's upcoming directorial debut, The Brave--is Marlon Brando, another instinctive actor, who almost certainly would have preferred a hide-in-plain-sight career like Depp's to the one he got. Depp, now 33, was lucky. He was given his shot at mainstream studdishness early on and blew it off fast. That was after he scored his first major success on TV's 21 Jump Street (where he played an undercover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEPP CHARGE | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...Last year] an inspector came up the stairs. My roommates dived to hide the toaster and the hotpot but they didn't even think about Toby. He was sitting in plain view right next to my desk. Luckily he didn't make any noises and [the inspector] didn't even notice...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Animal Magnetism | 3/1/1997 | See Source »

...post office downtown (including 79% of the senior citizens, who tend to walk there), postal spokesman Robin Wright dismisses the stay-putters as "emotional" and says the poll "is a private kind of deal" to "help us with our strategy." An internal Postal Service document makes this "strategy" as plain as bureaucratic doublespeak can be: "Provide a clearer identification of the 'real' underlying concerns by the antimove advocates, along with compensatory responses designed to diffuse them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: lLIVINGSTON, MONTANA: IT BREAKS A VILLAGE | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

This time Suettinger made his alarm plain. He wrote to Lake that Chung's mission was "very troubling" because it interfered in a "diplomatically difficult and high-stakes issue." He added, "All we can do is hope the Chinese recognize Chung's credentials are thin and that his message should be treated with caution." Suettinger feared that Chung could "do damage" and recommended that "we be very careful about the kinds of favors he is granted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CASH-AND-CARRY DIPLOMACY | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...watch, the demo begins. Glaser clicks on an icon and, through a miracle of high-speed compression and decompression, a Counting Crows music video streams from a computer in Seattle onto the screen in New York. It's live video, transmitted over the Internet, and even people using plain old phone lines and standard modems can have it. I thought of those first frames of Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon. The video quality was roughly the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NETLEY NEWS: THEY'VE GOTTA HAVE IT | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

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