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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even that impressive plot line, however, was not enough to quell the concerns raised by Eisner's brush with mortality two weeks ago, when he was rushed to surgery after a weekend with other media moguls in Idaho's Sun Valley. The unexpected illness of Disney's chairman unleashed a flood of speculation about the future of a company that only four months ago lost its second-in-command, Frank Wells, to a helicopter crash in Nevada. Last week there was some evidence that Disney executives may finally be coming to grips with the succession problem: a Disney board member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mirror, Mirror on The Wall... Who is the fairest successor of them all? | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

...than-life heroine. She's a regular Annie Oakley, shooting up the town. When her lover brings around a framed photograph of the girl his parents have arranged for him to marry, Margaret draws her revolver and pulverizes the picture. Two more shots follow, with greater consequence to the plot of Howard Norman's startling, ambitious novel, The Bird Artist (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 289 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: North Country Passion | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

...Bird Artist has been optioned for the movies, but it really should be an opera. It has everything the great 19th century operas had and that most modern music dramas lack: a strong plot, fierce currents of jealousy and revenge, a devouring sea ready to roil at an opportune moment, and juicy roles for two women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: North Country Passion | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

...genre of classic romantic, comedies with duos such as Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, director Andrew Bergman has found a cinematic piece de resistance in Bridget Fonda and Nicholas Cage. While the characters they play are basically one-dimensional and the film revolves around a simple, funny plot, "It Could Happen to You" sands alone as the best romantic comedy of the summer...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Bergman Happens To Find a Great Duo | 7/29/1994 | See Source »

Unfortunately, some of the plot structures hinder the storytelling. For some odd reason, Bergman and, I presume, screenwriter Jane "Anderson, decide to have the movie narrated by an outsider, Angel played by Isaac Hayes. At first it seems as if this Angles is supposed to be just that, some sort of guardian angel watching over the budding romance. When Angel turns out to be a photographer for one of the many tabloids who have been covering this unusual story, I felt a bit cheated...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Bergman Happens To Find a Great Duo | 7/29/1994 | See Source »

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