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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late (Michael Rapaport's Paul), or endlessly considering their options (Timothy Hutton's Willie). The latter, a barroom pianist in New York City, has come home to think over his relationship with a high-powered lawyer. Before making the right decision, he flirts with another visitor (Uma Thurman) and, most interestingly, with the 13-year-old who lives next door (Natalie Portman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: FOOLS FOR LOVE | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

...lineup, and some of its filmed movie parodies have been especially clever. Gump Fiction set America's most beloved dumbbell in the world of Quentin Tarantino, and unlike so many famously unfunny SNL skits, it actually gained momentum as it went along: See Forrest dance awkwardly with an Uma Thurman look-alike; see him assassinate President John F. Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: THE BATTLE FOR SATURDAY NIGHT | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

...VAMP BY CHANEL First the supermodels painted their nails black as dried blood. Then Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction and Madonna. Now everyone wants to vamp. With lipstick to match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of 1995: PRODUCTS | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

...when Uma Thurman told John Travolta not to be a square and she drew a square in the air. Clever, clever, clever Mr. Tarantino...

Author: By Judy Budnitz, | Title: Portrait of the Artist | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

...debasement of currency in talent and beauty of today's actresses compared with their counterparts of the 1930s and '40s. Can the dim-bulb performance of Marisa Tomei in Only You (1994) stand up to Carole Lombard's luminosity in My Man Godfrey (1936)? How can Winona Ryder, Uma Thurman, Sarah Jessica Parker and Drew Barrymore compete with Rita Hayworth's Gilda, Gene Tierney's Laura, Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa in Casablanca and Merle Oberon's Cathy in Wuthering Heights? It's the same twentysomething age group, but these actresses had more than faces. They were riper, more mature, more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1995 | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

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