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...OCCUPATION:] Talk-show host [MARRIAGES:] 7 [SHORTEST:] less than a year [LONGEST:] seven years [ODDEST MATE:] Two marriages to the same former Playboy bunny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Of The Century | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...simple words: "Floss regularly." Shorn of pretense and ringing with truth. Undaunted by the mundane at this august moment in the history of Western civilization is cnn legal analyst Greta Van Susteren. On the eve of the new millennium, she vows "to learn to comb my hair before my show rather than after." Medical and personal-grooming resolutions happen to be among my favorites. Here are two that I may or may not use this year, so feel free to borrow them if you'd like: "To actually mail in those occult fecal-blood tests that doctors always give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resolutions Without The Guilt | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...screenwriters concede that they massaged some facts for dramatic effect. To offset the downbeat reality of Andy's premature death, for example, they took a successful Carnegie Hall show from early in Kaufman's career and recast it as his last hurrah before succumbing to cancer. Several girlfriends were combined into a composite character, played by Courtney Love, and a few other liberties were taken as well. But Kaufman's life remains familiar to those who best know it. "Facts, schmacts, they made him honest," says Bill Zehme, who spent six years researching Kaufman for his comprehensive new book Lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Odd Fellows | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...those angles have worked out. A comedy they hoped to produce last year about pioneering sex researcher Alfred Kinsey fell apart during the development process. A film about disco icons the Village People derailed when they couldn't obtain creative control. An homage to the kid-show character H.R. Pufnstuf came close to being produced several times but still hasn't been made. And then there are the dozens of off-center biopic ideas that people are continually bringing them--baseball manager Billy Martin, TV preacher Gene Scott, sideshow freak Johnny Eck, pin-up girl Bettie Page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Odd Fellows | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Einstein went on to show that energy and matter were merely different faces of the same thing, their relationship described by the most famous equation in all of physics: energy equals mass multiplied by the speed of light squared, E=mc2. Although not exactly a recipe for an atomic bomb, it explained why one was possible. He also helped resolve smaller mysteries, such as why the sky is blue (it has to do with how the molecules of air diffuse sunlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Mattered And Why | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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