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...Italian Baroque Moorish Greek Renaissance Pagoda. Pick any two, and you had a movie palace. Deskey resisted Rothafel's bludgeoning insistence on "Portuguese Rococo" and instead dressed the place for Fred and Ginger, crafting a sleek temple dedicated not to Old World solemnity but to machine-age speed and sheen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Encore, Encore | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...CHARLIE SHEEN and EMILIO ESTEVEZ's portrayal of garbagemen in the 1990 film Men at Work didn't exactly resonate with audiences. Their latest joint venture, however, should spark more wicked curiosity. The siblings play brothers and porn pioneers Artie and Jim Mitchell for the Showtime film Rated X. Directed by Estevez, the film chronicles the careers of the pair credited with mainstreaming porn with the 1972 film Behind the Green Door. Asked how his brother felt playing a drug- and alcohol-abusing pornography hound, Estevez says, "Charlie had to go down some dark roads. I realized it could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 30, 1999 | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...midst of all these exclamation points, the correct attitude was to be sick of it already without having seen it. But Brown has created something that shouts READ ME, if only because it's much more raw and immediate than anything else on the stands with such an arty sheen and mainstream aspirations. She's foraged for voices outside the media hothouse and let them vent as if they were at a dinner party (or logged on to e-mail). Physically, the magazine owes its effect to European large-format glossies like Paris-Match and Stern. A run through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh Talk | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...Sugar Hill: A sitcom set in a New York City police station, starring Charlie Sheen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not All Ready for Prime Time | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

Last week NBC announced that veteran actor MARTIN SHEEN will star as a fictional President in The West Wing, a series to debut next fall. This will not be Sheen's first trip to the Oval Office. In fact, over the course of his career, he has frequently traipsed through the halls of power (including a tour in the Armed Forces as General Robert E. Lee in the 1993 film Gettysburg). Anxious as we are for The West Wing, we're still waiting to see what Sheen could do with a sensitively written role for one of Washington's real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 31, 1999 | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

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