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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scants Kaufman's only widely popular success, as Latka, the "foreign man" of Taxi. But all his other creations are here in full: the Mighty Mouse lip syncher, the Elvis impersonator, the wrestler who challenged women in the audience. And, of course, Tony Clifton, the hostile Las Vegas lounge singer. Carrey is easy in all those guises but never frantic for our favor. He gives a wonderfully disciplined performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Paean To A Pop Postmodernist | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...this sad, shadowy song about lynching in the South, history's greatest jazz singer comes to terms with history itself. RUNNERS-UP Corcovado by Antonio C. Jobim; A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan

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

...great grandfather, Bernhardt Vesper, acquired a 25,000-acre ranch in Cotulla, in the southern part of the state. Jeff would spend summers there with his grandparents, Lawrence Preston ("Pop") Gise and his wife Mattie Louise Strait (related to country singer George Strait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...studying Spanish there, the first year of seven he'll spend in Cuba on his way to a medical degree. We follow the taxi into Cienfuegos, drop off Dale at his barbed wire-surrounded dormitory, check into a hotel with red light bulbs and a lounge singer plowing through the high points of the Billy Joel songbook, and we're done for the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitchhiker's Cuba | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

DIED. RICK DANKO, 56, bass player and singer with the Band; in Woodstock, N.Y. The Band, which began as Bob Dylan's backup ensemble, had several hits in the late '60s and early '70s, including Up on Cripple Creek, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 20, 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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