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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But no, this is just the writer, Brian Helgeland, and the director, Richard Donner, having their little misleading joke. For we soon see that underneath the crazy bluster, there is a certain woozy sweetness about Jerry, something suggesting that he is in occasional touch with rationality. Alice (Julia Roberts), the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: FULL-SERVICE PARANOIA | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

Jerry has only one ally: Alice Sutton (Julia Roberts), a justice department attorney he's infatuated with--even going to the lengths of parking his cab outside her apartment and watching her exercise every evening--who receives his wild tales calmly and begins to believe in him. As the plot...

Author: By Christiana Briggs, | Title: They're Not Out to Get You Just Because You're Paranoid | 8/15/1997 | See Source »

In addition to a great plot, the actors make the characters convincing. The beautiful Roberts, as the compassionate attorney, shows real and believable sympathy toward Jerry, even if she always looks a little too perfectly groomed and styled: Whether she's climbing through trap doors or running through fields to...

Author: By Christiana Briggs, | Title: They're Not Out to Get You Just Because You're Paranoid | 8/15/1997 | See Source »

Chests were heaving in passionate disbelief at last week's Romance Writers of America convention when it emerged that one of the genre's most prolific and popular writers was a plagiarist. JANET DAILEY, right, who has written 93 novels, has 200 million books in print and even has an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 11, 1997 | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

In fact, Hollywood has been Bacharach's biggest promoter. The songwriter serves as a veritable totem of retro-cool in Mike Meyer's Austin Powers, in which Bacharach does a cameo singing behind a candelabraed piano that sits atop a Las Vegas tourist bus. His music is featured even more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURT BACHARACH: WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

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