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Canned synthesizer set on bouncy autoplay, monotone Swed-glish vocals, bare-bones lyrics of dubious syntax-this is the medicine that sweet Doktor Kosmos dispenses. Of course, you'd never actually want to listen to most of it for any length of time, but it's a cute, often masterfully comic item nonetheless...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bouncy, Cute Casiotones | 9/19/1997 | See Source »

This trio includes Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey, never more engagingly slippery), who is the technical adviser to a Dragnet-like TV show and is becoming a celebrity in his own right; Bud White (Australian actor Russell Crowe), who's a sweet, plodding sort of guy unless someone visits violence on women, which turns him into a raging brute; and Ed Exley (Guy Pearce, another Aussie), the departmental priss and spoilsport, thoroughly despised by everyone, as moral centers of amoral enterprises should be--until they turn out to have been right all along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THREE L.A. COPS, ONE PHILIP MARLOWE | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

...older age she might have become the King's mother, welcomed back into the royal family at a time of life that is automatically accorded stature. How would she have looked? The hair whiter, the skin a bit more lined, but the eyes would still have had that sweet mixture of kindness and longing. By then the story of her and Charles, the scandals and recriminations, might have been lost in smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRINCESS DIANA: BEAUTY DIES | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

Dandridge built a career as a suave nightclub singer before playing the jungle queen in Tarzan's Peril (1951). Here and in Bright Road (1953), a sweet drama starring Dorothy as a rural teacher, she flashed limpid eyes aching with sympathy; imagine Olivia de Havilland with a little sex and a little color (Dorothy's face had to be darkened with makeup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LADY SCREENS THE BLUES | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

GOOD NIGHT, SWEET PRESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 25, 1997 | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

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