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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old festival: booing at the end of a crummy picture. During his spell in Cannes, Depp toted around the Hollywood Reporter, which roundly panned his work. Marlon Brando co-stars with Depp in the grim tale of a poor Native American who agrees to be in a snuff film to earn $50,000 for his family. The pinch-me part for Depp was climbing the Palais steps with girlfriend KATE MOSS to show the film officially. "To be accepted by those people was one of the best moments of my life," he said. No matter what they thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 26, 1997 | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

...official racism and to help all those decent people of color in the supporting cast. And of course the black actors don't get to play anything so interesting as a villain. Goldberg has to fashion Myrlie into a plaster saint, smothered by reverence, while Woods, snorting some invisible snuff, can have fun and lock up an Oscar nomination. Ghosts of Mississippi argues fervently for racial equality in the New South; yet in its perpetuation of the caste system in Hollywood dramas, the film is anything but an affirmative action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A RICH FILM FEAST | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

Reviewing some 130 applications from student groups per semester and dispensing some $72,000 per year to many of them, the committee has the power to ignite--or snuff out--a group's ambitions for an entire semester...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: When U.C. Doles Out Money, Scales Are Sometimes Weighted | 11/8/1996 | See Source »

PHILIP MORRIS Though lawsuits loom, it helps snuff investors' fears by boosting dividend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 9, 1996 | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...authorized to wear it. Careers are ruined by lying to the troops, and the good admiral knew that." But Rodolfo A. Arizala of Santiago had a more pragmatic reaction: "To the nonmilitary person, it is unthinkable that the honest mistake of wearing an unauthorized combat ribbon could snuff out the life of a 'sailor's sailor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 17, 1996 | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

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