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...Robin Guthrie's distorted guitars, is replaced with fragile picking on an acoustic guitar. Though the occasional soft chime of a synthesizer filters in, the tone is a far cry from the abrasive synth of their first few albums. "Half-Gifts," the final track, even features a four-part string section...

Author: By Nina Kang, | Title: Cocteau Twins Lose Their Angry Roots | 2/1/1996 | See Source »

Redstone has been especially concerned with the performance of Paramount Pictures, the glamorous centerpiece of Viacom's $10 billion acquisition of Paramount Communications in 1994. The studio has had a string of box-office disappointments lately--including Sabrina, Jade and A Vampire in Brooklyn--and Redstone complained that too many films were put into production with subpar scripts. The Viacom boss has been spending a growing amount of time in Hollywood, attending marketing meetings and consulting on details as small as what promotional knickknacks to send to video stores overseas to help push Paramount product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A FIRING AT FORT SUMNER | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

...that's just what Mitterrand did. And his death two weeks ago--following a string of highly publicized prostate-cancer deaths that includes those of Telly Savalas, Don Ameche and Frank Zappa--served to underscore how unpredictable the disease can be and why regular checkups are so important for the middle-aged men who are most susceptible. Prostate-cancer rates have been rising steadily for the past two decades; it is now for men the second most deadly form of cancer, after lung disease, striking 300,000 Americans each year and killing 40,000. Although doctors can easily treat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MITTERRAND'S DEADLY SECRET | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

BEFORE THE BRITISH MONARCHY IS CANCELED, as a chorus of antagonists is calling for, there is one way to strengthen the royal family and make it cost effective. Let Disney acquire it. This would continue the string of privatizations--including British Gas, British Telecom and British Airways--that were successfully engineered in the Thatcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME FOR WINDSORLAND | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

...snapped a self-portrait (yes, that's her) and penned a piece for Details' Mondo Hollywood issue. Apparently, divadom isn't all it's cracked up to be. Moore complains of being thrown onto powdered cement, walking "small, repetitive distances in uncomfortable shoes" and standing around in a G-string with tissues stuffed up her nose. "I have even gone so far as to roll around in a semiclad state on piles of money and Michael Douglas," she says. All for just a few million lousy bucks. But it's not endlessly horrid. "You just have to remind yourself that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 15, 1996 | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

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