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...inspiring.) "There isn't much acting going on today," apologizes director Robert Zemeckis, who teamed with Hanks on 1994's Forrest Gump. It's more like boxing. Hanks clambers, panting, onto the command ship Aftershock, barking, "Big ones! Those were great!" Like a prizefighter, he's wrapped in a towel. He takes a few slugs of Diet Coke, has a mouthpiece popped in--actually a set of prosthetic rotten teeth--gets his scars and scabs touched up and then swings overboard again. Perhaps out of patriotism, I avert my eyes from his skimpy loincloth. I mean, that'd be like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Saving Tom Hanks | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

...keep track of the cavalcade of stars that the club offers. The Friars Club is like trying to play a game of Jeopardy! where the correct response is always, "I don't know who he is, Alex, but I wish he'd cover himself with a towel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take My Membership. Please | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

...positive of this season has been our will to win regardless of our standing," Primm said. "After the close losses to Notre Dame and UMass, we could have easily thrown in the towel, but instead [we] maintained our focus with Dartmouth...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Lax Ends Season With Win Over Dartmouth, 6-4 | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

...guard won't have any of that and isn't about to throw in the towel, despite the many setbacks in the Elian debacle. Jorge Mas Santos, the millionaire chairman of the hard-line Cuban-American National Foundation, Miami's powerful political machine--and son of the foundation's fiery former leader, Jorge Mas Canosa, who died in 1997--attributes the moderate trend to "Middle-American ignorance about Cuban repression." But De Leon, who has broken with the exile taboo and visits Cuba, insists that the practical way to change the island is to look beyond Castro and start building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out With The Old? | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...steady, dependable growth and vaunted brand power, like that of many consumer powerhouses, made it a must for countless portfolios. Sure, wireless PDAs and baby websites may be cool, but you can't diaper the baby with a computer mouse, or clean up spilled milk with a virtual paper towel. "The rumors of the demise of national brands have been greatly exaggerated," says Jim Crimmins, worldwide brand planning director of ad agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble in Brand City | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

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