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These three are cheerleaders to depressive Mike (Favreau), an actor-comedian who is having trouble getting over a fizzled affair. Six months later, he's still miserable and can't stop talking about it. Each buddy has to be Mike's personal shrink; every potential date becomes his antsy big...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MEN BEHAVING COOLLY | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

He was a man formed of charismatic muscle and countless contradictions. But the romantic profile cut by Irish rebel Michael Collins was not what gripped Liam Neeson so much as one enigmatic habit. "Here he was at one point the most hunted man in Europe," Neeson recounts, his subdued brogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A STAR IS FINALLY BORN | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

Like those other great military geniuses of 20th century revolution--Trotsky, Zapata, Guevara--Ireland's Michael Collins comes to a mean, messy and untimely end, a victim of assassination and, in a larger sense, the victim of his own romantic reputation. But unlike these men, with whom he was completely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MICHAEL COLLINS: WANT A REVOLUTION? | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

Yes, the secrecy was a triumph, and the planning and logistics really were impressive. But this wasn't the Normandy invasion, it was a wedding, and something more important has been overlooked: how incredibly romantic it must have been. The setting was one of the wild, unspoiled sea islands off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BY GEORGE, HE GOT MARRIED! | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

Except for a Dixie Cup-esque cut (I Do), the Grace of My Heart songs aren't primarily parodies; they're just good music. The pearl is God Give Me Strength, by Bacharach and Elvis Costello. Broody and complex, it suggests a tune Bacharach might have given Dionne Warwick to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: '60S GOING ON '90S | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

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