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...Miss USA contest (and way too mature to be Miss Universe). Baldwin, whose birth date on her registration form was apparently overlooked, is taking the matter to a different sort of judging contest: court. "The pageant is an important opportunity for an aspiring actress," says Baldwin's lawyer, Jeff Smyth. "She was a contender in every way. We'll be looking for seven to eight figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 19, 1995 | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

...such a small mistake -- the equivalent of changing the spelling of Smith to Smyth -- have such an impact? Each three-letter "word" of a gene "sentence" spells out the instructions for producing 1 of 20 amino acids, compounds that in turn link to form proteins. A change in just one letter can result in the substitution of one amino acid for another. The new amino acid will be larger, smaller, stiffer or more elastic than the correct one. In ways radical and subtle, it will affect the shape of the protein and its activity. For if a cell is like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stopping Cancer in Its Tracks | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...film was a son's changing relationship with his father. % But if that was his intended subject, say some close to the case, the director should have used someone else's story. "The truth is that Gerry Conlon had very little time for his father," says Sean Smyth, an uncle. "It's a good film, well acted and everything," concedes Conlon's aunt, Anne Maguire. "But I think if they'd put more of the true facts in, it would have been a much more powerful film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: In the Name of the Truth | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...bodies argued for a motive of hatred rather than business. Though they pretended to discover the bodies, Lyle, then 21, and Erik, 18, did not put on a very convincing show of grief; they went on a $700,000 spending spree with the insurance money. In March 1990, Judalon Smyth told police that after being asked to sit outside the office of her then lover, psychologist Jerome Oziel, she had overheard the brothers admit the killings to Oziel. Police seized Oziel's tapes and arrested Lyle and Erik on suspicion of having murdered their parents to hasten their enjoyment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sons and Murderers | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

Quincy House Film Committee Co-Chair Anne C.Smyth '93 said that she is confident that hercommittee has valid rights to the movies ityellow-tagged last spring. However, Smyth said,Quincy has agreed to give Wayne's World andAlien 3 back to Dunster...

Author: By Naheed Rehman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Houses Squabble Over Films | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

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