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Sergei Oblomov (Marcello Mastroianni), a sinister Russian tailor, is Mme, de la Fontaine's long-lost first husband, inexplicably sneaking through the most stylish closets in town until they are reunited. Loren pays homage to the couple's steamy screen history with a reenactment of a striptease she last performed...

Author: By Sorelle B. Braun, | Title: Altman's Fashion Circus | 1/13/1995 | See Source »

During the 1974 Watergate hearings, then-Chief of Staff Alexander Haig blamed a famous, 18 1/2-minute gap in President Nixon's tapes on "sinister forces." But a newly-released memo shows that the White House tried to blame Rosemary Woods, Nixon's loyal personal secretary, who had claimed to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE TAPES . . . MORE ON THOSE MISSING MINUTES | 1/13/1995 | See Source »

The chilling winds of New-foundland may howl outside the St. Vincent orphanage, the setting of director John N. Smith's compelling new film "The Boys of St. Vincent," but the territory inside the cloistered stone walls provides no safe haven either. The black-clad priests of St. Vincent slip...

Author: By Tristanne LILAH Walliser, | Title: The Bells Toll for 'Boys of St. Vincent' | 12/15/1994 | See Source »

Perhaps the most compelling performance was given by Danton Charas Ruthven's evil brother Despard. Before Despard's reformation, Char exudes a snaky, sly, and deliciously sinister stage presence; he retains the unnerving cool of a villain even after be reforms, tantalizing the audience with the hopes Despard might return...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: Ruddigore--More Story, Less Time, Eh? | 12/8/1994 | See Source »

Star Trek has evolved over the years from the brash, sometimes campy original series, with its Day-Glo colors and dime-store special effects, to the more meditative, slickly produced Next Generation, to the relatively conventional action-flick pleasures of the feature films. In all its incarnations, however, Star Trek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Trek: Trekking Onward | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

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