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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 »

...away with this." Bob Rolke, 18, a varsity swimmer at Washington's American University, has barely had a trim in the past two years and says of his mass of bronze curls, "The girls like it." The ponytail's most notable practitioner is undoubtedly Hollywood's Steven Seagal, the impassive karate black belt whose hit movies Hard to Kill and Marked for Death helped popularize the style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Long and Short of It | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

MARKED FOR DEATH. He can't act -- don't ask him -- but Steven Seagal is the new Brahmin of brawn. His latest essay in mindless movie mayhem, in which our sullen hunk of a hero breaks the will (also the fingers and spines) of some Jamaican drug dealers, is one of the season's big hits. See it and wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 26, 1990 | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

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