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Turn a page of the storybook and see Steven and Amy walking hand in hand through the rain toward Claude Monet's house in the Paris suburb of Giverny. "Just as we arrived," Irving recalls, "the rain stopped, so we were able to walk around the gardens. When we walked inside, it started pouring again. Then, during lunch, a double rainbow appeared outside our window. It was very magical, and then I threw up. That was the first time I realized I was with child." As a memento of their visit, Spielberg bought a Monet, which hangs on their living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: I Dream for a Living | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...every turn, Hav's storybook past collides with the neon present. The annual Roof Race, Europe's oddest sporting event, sends multinational Havians sprinting across the peeling ruins left by Athenian, Czarist and British occupations. Noel Coward and Nijinsky played here in Hav's heyday; Nazis hid out among its elite residents. Present-day Havians are baffling shadows. The last pretender to the Turkish caliphate, a principal shareholder in Hav TV, tries to marry Morris to his vizier. She sips coffee with a Chinese financial pirate and recognizes a bartender at the opulent casino from his days at Harry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...crone on the jaw; Chunk (Jeff B. Cohen) finds an unlikely friend who loves junk food as much as he does; athletic Brand (Josh Brolin) muscles his way through calamity; and his little brother Mikey (Sean Astin), a dreamy hypochondriac, goads his fellow Goonies toward their rendezvous with a storybook pirate. The Goonies is like a clubhouse where every Boy's Life adventure comes true. And on the door hangs a sign: ADULTS KEEP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Way to the Children's Crusade | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...Smith at least, the result was a storybook ending to an up-and-down suspense thriller...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Smith Comeback Capsizes Batswomen, 7-6 | 4/12/1985 | See Source »

...next shift, Janfaza took a hit and went down hard with a separated shoulder. What had started out as a storybook first game for Janfaza ended in disappointment for the Natick, Mass. native, when he learned that the injury would keep him out of the lineup for at least two weeks...

Author: By Brian Mccarthy, | Title: '88's Eight: Hockey Freshmen | 3/2/1985 | See Source »

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