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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Barrymore made her first movie splash as the wide-eyed little girl who befriended E.T. 16 years ago, which qualifies her as a sort of cool elder sister for the new group of Hollywood teens. With a stream of increasingly grownup movie parts, she's not a bad role model. After a 1996 cameo in Scream and a perky co-starring role in The Wedding Singer, she stars in Ever After, a sweet feminist remake of Cinderella that opens this weekend, and plays a pregnant fast-food clerk in the quirky black comedy Home Fries, coming later this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Too Good To Be Drew? | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

...been waiting for. Not only does the sharp fall in ocean temperatures signal the breakup of the giant pool of warm water in the tropical Pacific that triggered one of the century's greatest El Ninos, but it may also signal the birth of El Nino's unruly twin sister, the climatological reversal that scientists call La Nina ("the girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blowing Hot And Cold | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

...episode dramatizing one of the Ten Commandments through the lives of the residents of a Warsaw apartment house--revels in the convolutions of melodrama. There are two brutal killings, a few attempted suicides, even a car chase. A perfect child dies. Another child is told, Chinatown-style, that her sister is really her mother. At times Decalogue plays like a Polish Melrose Place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dazzling Decalogue | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

LIAISON DANGEREUSE The hero of Philippi dumped his wife, who happened to be the Emperor's sister, to take up with Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyes Front! And That Means You, Sir! | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...Amount saved by the Queen's sister Princess Margaret by using a senior citizen's discount pass on a public train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jul. 13, 1998 | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

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