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Sure enough, Turner told MGM/UA officials last week that he wanted to make "family pictures," citing The Right Stuff and Shane as examples of what he liked. Said a top producer: "If he starts to let his personal convictions affect what pictures get made or what themes they have, he will drive the company into the ground." Maybe so, but it was not Turner who said, "Public morality is a very important factor on the screen. I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom." That was Samuel Goldwyn, and his philosophy helped produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turner Takes On Hollywood | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...drugs. "It can be taken, I guess, as a piece of sociology," he concedes. "A lot of teenagers hunger to be in that kind of group." As for the grownup pressures of his new success, he says straitlacedly, "You just have to keep writing. If you let stuff like that get in your head, you'll never write another word." --By Guy D.Garcia

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 19, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...almost always patient and almost never distant. "You know how managers always say, 'I don't care if they like me as long as they respect me?' Well, that ain't my philosophy." He sees talent everywhere. "I was the guy everyone said couldn't do all this stuff, remember? Really, I wish these kids all could go through what I have, but I don't think it's fair to ask every one of them to get 4,000 hits." His principal ally is Coach George Scherger, 64, Detroit Manager Sparky Anderson's first teacher in the minor leagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...side of the comparative arguments. But Cobb would not have had it any other way. Racist remarks, particularly about Negro ancestry, were his favorites. Even the affamble Babe chided him, "I don't mind being called a son of a bitch or a bastard, but ... none of that personal stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Failures Can't Come Home | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...only a few arcades have closed. Mayor Kathy Whitmire, who promoted the antiarcade ordinance, is seeking re-election on Nov. 5, and her opponent, former Houston Mayor Louie Welch, has made the proliferating sex industry a major election issue. Said one attorney who is defending several antiarcade cases: "This stuff always comes up around election time, just like clockwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boomtown for Pornography | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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