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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cohen says that next season, The Simpsons' eighth, will likely revive the plot line that involves the Itchy and Scratchy writers, bringing back the Harvard graduates...

Author: By William E. Rehling, | Title: Homer-palooza...from a Harvard perspective | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

Doom's charm wasn't its almost non-existent plot line, which involved space marines--or something. The attraction was hunt-and-be-hunted action that put the player behind a shotgun barrel (or a chain saw or a nail gun) in a hellish 3-D world of demons and fireball-spitting ogres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WIZARDS OF ID | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...July 26). A weird guy (De Niro) stalks a star (Wesley Snipes). That's it, at least in the high-concept, low-content trailer, which is all sweat and slow menace. We guess it's the same plot as The Cable Guy, perhaps with fewer laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SUDDENLY THIS SUMMER | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...even strained plausibility, Amanda is now rekindling her love with Dr. Peter Burns for the umpteenth time but seems to have forgotten that he tried to kill her last year when she discovered he was embezzling money from a drug company. That was an aspect of the plot that executive producer Frank South admits, "we decided not to dwell on." South believes the world of Melrose actually makes sense, an unsettling thought. "We feel it has definite emotional and physical boundaries. The characters are just a little more desperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: STOP THE INANITY! | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...pairs the roguishly charming newcomer with that gleaming icon of glamour MICHELLE PFEIFFER. Clooney plays an Oscar Madison-like newspaper columnist and single father; Pfeiffer is an architect and single mother. They meet and immediately fall in loathe. What do you think will come to pass? In any case, plot turns are one thing, chemistry another. Seasoned superstars--including Al Pacino and Robert Redford--have failed to ignite the screen when paired with the ultracool Pfeiffer. Clooney will at least have this advantage: much of the mating ritual in the movie is conducted via cell phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 6, 1996 | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

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