Word: steve
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...STEVE WULF, who came to us from our sister publication Sports Illustrated, is in effect TIME's coach this summer--organizing our team coverage of the centennial Olympic Games and, this week, writing our lead story about the opening ceremonies. Wulf cares about how sports relate to the culture, to entertainment, to how people express themselves. But he also focuses in on the nuts and bolts of many events; while in Atlanta he will cover baseball, basketball and field hockey. "I expect that these games will be terrific," he says. "At a certain point, track and field will take over...
...into film work. In the 1991 Shout, she escorted John Travolta through his fallow period, and she played Peter Pan's young Wendy in the hollow that was Hook. She got a break at 19 when she was cast as the evil Ginnie (she steals jewelry from corpses) in Steve Kloves' Flesh and Bone. Wearing Lolita sunglasses and a play-dumb smile, she displayed slow sass and a wicked intelligence. "She was sunshine and light when she walked into the room," says Kloves of Paltrow's audition, "but as soon as she read, a veil came over...
Pixar, creator of the computerized movie hit, caused a sensation when its $22 opening price doubled and then some in its first hours of trading as an initial public offering last November, making chairman Steve Jobs, the millionaire co-founder of Apple Computer, into a paper billionaire. Indeed, for the past two years it has seemed that every twentysomething computer entrepreneur who could wear a suit long enough could get Wall Street bankers to sell stock to the public...
...Couric. Or a pregnant reporter whom Republican Congressman Wes Cooley of Oregon threatened to punch in the nose for asking uncomfortable questions about his wife's finances. Or Mimi Swartz, a National Magazine Award winner who had the temerity to write a profile in Texas Monthly of freshman Congressman Steve Stockman, a former house painter who personifies the desire of voters to throw out incumbents in favor of the inexperienced and the uninformed. Offering a great deal of evidence, she described him as a militia-loving, ethically challenged "class clown." In response, the Congressman's top aide, Cory Birenbaum, shot...
...Chapelle) who before had made public mockery of him as Sherman Klump. Turning heckler, Buddy begins by sarcastically praising the comic for his ability to pick out and pick on people for their weaknesses. Thereafter, things turn ugly for the poor guy: in a sequence owing a lot to Steve Martin's nose-joke routine in a bar in "Roxanne," Buddy proceeds to roast the comic to a crisp. Where Klump had received abuse -- "Now we know what's eating Gilbert Grape!"--Buddy dishes it out, worse than the comic himself could do. (But Chapelle captures the strutting, merciless vulgarity...