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If anyone ever had good reason to say no to drugs, it was surely Robert Downey Jr. The actor, 35, had already seen a promising career held back by substance abuse. He had been separated from his wife and son and lost his freedom--twice. But since his release from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downey's Downfall | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

The cop; the taxi driver; tipsy Uncle Billy; the man at the window who watches George court Mary and tells him to "kiss her"; the good-hearted, decorously loose woman (Gloria Grahame)--they do what friends are supposed to do, which outwardly is not all that much. Bacon, Montaigne, Emerson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sometimes It's a Wonderful Life | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

Not even these irreverent squiggles, however, can diminish the real testament of the posters: the enduring stardom; the genre jumping; the directing, producing and acting credits that have built his brilliant career during his two decades in the movie business. Yet even by his mammoth standards for success, this has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Softer Side of Mel | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

The star also acquits himself quite nicely in the film, which is notable not because it co-stars Helen Hunt (what doesn't co-star Helen Hunt these days?), but because it's Gibson's first foray into romantic comedy. "They haven't naturally come my way," he says when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Softer Side of Mel | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

This one came in with a funny smell: the perfume of illicit passion, domestic upheaval and smoldering guilt. (O.K., forget that last bit; we're in the postguilt age, at least in Hollywood and Washington.) Proof of Life, a romantic thriller with Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe, is coming out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Better Than Tabloid Tattle | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

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