Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SENIOR WRITERS: David Brand, Tom Callahan, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Walter Isaacson, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, Frank Trippett...
...Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Katherine Mihok, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Nancy Newman, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); David Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Tam Martinides Gray, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, JoAnn Lum, Emily Mitchell, Lawrence Mondi, Jeannie Park, Michael Quinn, Theodore...
...some old star, and Costner watchers have their candidates. "Kevin fulfills many of the same ideals that a Jimmy Stewart or a Gary Cooper did for their generation: the little guy against the system, the pure guy vs. evil, the strong man in a time of trouble," says Tom Pollock, chairman of the MCA Motion Picture Group. "It's hard to think of any other leading man in his 30s who can play this variety of roles -- action hero, romantic lead and family...
...often willing to torpedo his career to make a point. In Frances, one of his first movies, he risked not getting a Screen Actors Guild card when he balked at saying what he deemed an inappropriate line of dialogue. When Oliver Stone asked if he wanted to play the Tom Berenger role in Platoon, "I didn't even meet with him," Costner says, "because my brother Dan had been in Viet Nam, and I was reluctant to do a film about something that had such impact on his life. In a way, I regret not doing...
...inspector general's report in April, the agency has become the target of inquiry by two congressional committees into charges of influence peddling. The Justice Department has launched a nationwide probe into the possible theft of as much as $100 million in HUD funds. Says Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos of California, chairman of a House panel that has held hearings on the agency's problems: "The scandal at HUD seems to have no end. It is the most mismanaged department in memory...