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...Sweeney (James Caan) is a Fagan-like character, who uses his young Oliveresque son Arlis (played by Jerry Swindall as a child and by Dennis Quaid as an adult) to break into and steal from people's homes. The scheme is this: a family finds a mute, apparently lost child on its doorstep one day, and takes him in. While asleep, the young Arlis creeps downstairs to let his father in, and together, they loot the house, sneaking off into the night...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Little House on the Prairie | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

Tahoe and Aspen are overcrowded; Santa Fe is commercialized; when a mogul or a movie star wants to enjoy untainted American spaces, what's left? Try Montana. For members of the names-in-bold-print set, from Ted Turner to Tom Brokaw, from Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan to Mel Gibson and Kiefer Sutherland, from Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen to Oakland A's owner Walter Haas, the Big Sky State has become the hottest of hideaways. Says Russ Francis, a former San Francisco 49er football star who recently joined the rush to Big Sky Country: "This is the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cattlemen Vs. Granola Bars | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...Vanna White got married, and so did Tom Cruise, Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid (those last two to each other). Jane Fonda and Ted Turner are engaged. Danny Thomas and Margot Fonteyn died. James Brown was paroled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And While You Were Gone . . . | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

DAVIS RULES (ABC, Jan. 27, approximately 10 p.m. EST). The year's most coveted time period -- the one following the Super Bowl -- goes to this new sitcom starring Jonathan Winters as the wacky father of a grammar school principal (Randy Quaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Jan. 28, 1991 | 1/28/1991 | See Source »

...this year's dole list are the American Indian (Dances with Wolves), the mentally bereft (Awakenings), the Nisei interned during World War II (Come See the Paradise) -- noble victims all, and all seen through the dewy eyes of a white male star (Kevin Costner or Robin Williams or Dennis Quaid) who elevates their plight by suffering along with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dole List | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

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