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...Michael Richards (Kramer on Seinfeld) and not one but two acts involving naked guys dancing with balloons. The festival attracts around 600,000 people, but the performers are not nearly as interested in the crowds as they are in the 400 scouts from Hollywood and New - York City who roam the venues in search of the next Roseanne Barr or Jerry Seinfeld. The industry types perform a very important function. At every hotel bar you see the same clusters of people: a couple of comics, a couple of managers and an executive; the executive is there to pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Searching for Jerry Seinfeld | 8/16/1993 | See Source »

Doesn't everyone love to find out from The New York Times that Woody Allen won't take a shower in a stall that has a drain in the middle of the floor? These days, television movies go into production before the smoke clears. Barbra Streisand and Sharon Stone roam the corridors of power. And politicians are starting to buy infomercials to sell their wares like so many cans of spray-on hair. Most people wouldn't consider these positive trends, but they're wrong. Dead wrong...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Class of '93: Oh, The Places We Have Been! | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...while kids look for a new Aladdin or Home Alone, grownups will roam for romantic fare like the recent hits The Bodyguard and Indecent Proposal. That's why some industry swamis have picked Sleepless in Seattle, a sprightly romance, as the season's surprise hit. (Others chose Rookie of the Year and Free Willy.) And the only way that Jurassic Park and Last Action Hero could surprise Hollywood is if they don't hit the $100 million mark in their first four weeks of release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rating The Hot-Weather Hopefuls | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

...that tens of millions of people around the globe, including children as young as six, are working in bondage -- in dangerous and degrading conditions that often involve 18-hour workdays, beatings and sexual abuse. Many are the victims of opportunistic slave raiders, sometimes called "child catchers" and "cats," who roam impoverished or war-ravaged regions kidnapping, buying or luring helpless prospects into servitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alas, Slavery Lives | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

...group of Medical School researchers has found an altered gene that may be responsible for Lou Gehrig's disease, suggesting that doctors should start looking for ways to attack dangerous free elements left to roam in the central nervous systems of patients with the fatal disorder...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Gehrig's Disease Gene Found | 3/4/1993 | See Source »

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