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...plays both the actor and the killer, and it's hard to tell which one needs psychiatric help more. Producer-director David Jablin crams a feature film's worth of twists into a breathless 37 minutes and skewers everything from TV's true-crime shows to America's celebrity roller coaster. Pound for pound, it may be the shrewdest satire of television since Network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 11, 1991 | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

Even if Atlantic City lacks anything intellectual, at least the $20 tip I got from a high roller from Trenton bought my Norton Anthology of American Literature. The $7.50 from the ladies on the Wednesday New York City bus bought me a pizza last night. My Fourth of July holiday pay will cover most of my Coop bill this month. And the tip from my friend Wayne Yu '92 is almost enough to buy a candy...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Stakehorsing an Education | 11/1/1991 | See Source »

...where once there was resignation. The high price of in vitro * treatments (ranging from $6,000 to more than $50,000 per live birth) means that only the rich and well-insured can afford them. Patients who have undergone round after round say it is like riding an emotional roller coaster; you never know when you are going to run into a brick wall and have your heart broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treating Infertility: Making Babies | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...couldn't happen to a more deserving fella. Loesser would tell you that. As brash as any gravel-gargling high roller from Guys and Dolls, he was famous for telling his singers, "Loud is good," and he applied that maxim to his professional life. For Loesser, a song was melodrama in miniature: he loved the counterpoint of two hearts and voices in seductive competition, as in Baby, It's Cold Outside and many other contentious duets. They were an expression of his own tumultuous personality. During Guys and Dolls rehearsals, exasperated by Isabel Bigley's tentative attempts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Snappy Fella | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

...roller-coaster career curve is hardly unique. With the exception of a macho-arts maven like Steven Seagal, whose films routinely pick up an easy $40 million, nearly every modern star's box-office graph zigzags as wildly as an Axl Rose delta gram. Robert Redford and Clint Eastwood have dominated movies for a quarter-century, but their latest pictures have played in empty theaters. Robert De Niro, the most admired actor in films, went a decade after The Deer Hunter (1978) without a hit. Then he appeared in three commercial successes: GoodFellas, Awakenings, Backdraft. When Bruce Willis flexed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainment: Do Stars Deliver? | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

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