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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seem as if ROBERT DOWNEY JR. has little to look forward to besides flattering orange jumpsuits and improving his letter-writing skills. Earlier this month, the tormented actor returned to prison for violating probation on a 1996 drug conviction. But if his prior incarceration is any guide, he will encounter a panoply of cinematic possibilities, whether he wants to or not. In a forthcoming book by director Mike Figgis, Downey recounts having a stint in solitary confinement interrupted by a prison deputy. "This guy says, 'I hope I wouldn't be crossing the line if I brought a script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 30, 1999 | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...Makin has a gift for casually tossed-off farce. And along with Michael's bemused unflappability, his weird British conviction that somehow he will muddle through to a happy ending, that good-natured spirit carries one over some of the logical lacunae of the script by Adam Scheinman and Robert Kuhn. But not quite past the presence of Caan. It was only 27 years ago that his crazy volatility ignited The Godfather. Now he's almost beamish as a wary fixer. He's still funny, but his new characterization, like the success of The Sopranos and Analyze This, reminds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hugh's New Bid To Be a Hit Man | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...built a $12 million museum in Watertown, S.D., to showcase his work; Bev Doolittle, a painter of Native American themes who in the past decade has sold more than $60 million worth of prints; G. Harvey, who sold 30,000 prints last year, many at $1,500 or higher; Robert Bateman, a Canadian wildlife artist whose $100,000 originals led to a display of his work at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington; and Wyland, who legally ditched his first name (Robert) after his whale murals built a $50 million empire and won him a designation as official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art Of Selling Kitsch | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...data on the W-88 warhead. Lee downloaded sensitive nuclear "legacy codes" to his personal computer. The intelligence official, however, said there is an important difference. Deutch's fault, he said, was composing classified documents on an unsecured terminal. No downloading was involved. As for the Lee case, ROBERT VROOMAN, former head of counterintelligence at the Los Alamos Weapons Laboratory, charged last week that ethnic bias led investigators to focus on the Asian American. But officials say Vrooman helped compose the original suspects list (which, apart from Lee and his wife, included one other Asian and nine Caucasians) and made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Intelligence: No More Secrets for You | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...Cruise --Glenn Close --Nicole Kidman --Mel Gibson --Robert Downey Jr. --Andie MacDowell --William Hurt --Sigourney Weaver

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

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