Word: vetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enjoying multimillion-dollar payouts. You hear about Gen Xers turned philanthropists: the woman who signed up out of college and plans to retire at 30; the guy who launched a dog-biscuit business on the side. "We get told not to watch the ticker," says Marcus, a three-year vet who, one imagines, does so anyway...
...There are two maxims that most professional editors live by: Don t ask a four-fingered man to give you five and don t send a Vietnam Vet to cover a Third World war-zone. During their tenure, the folks at FM have violated both these precepts. If you re interested in the story of the first, ask the angry drunk out front...
...regular on the TV series Trapper John, M.D., Brian Stokes Mitchell (just Brian Mitchell then, before he added his middle name for more distinctiveness on the marquee) was a Broadway performer at heart. A film editor on the show once said he knew Mitchell must be a theater vet because he acted even when the camera wasn't on him: "You don't turn off when it's not your line...
CARLOS SANTANA Black Magic comeback: Woodstock vet's album soars to No. 1. AARP to sponsor tour...
...smooth talking paramedic who has a soft spot for gin and prostitutes and a talent for preaching. Then watch as he, cradling the receiver, slips his voice into something more comfortable and makes sweet love to the dispatcher (voiced by Queen Latifah). The other medic is ex-marine Vietnam vet Tom Walls (Tom Sizemore). He's a scary thing to unleash on the streets, a sort of manic vigilante with his own laws of humanity. It's a chilling performance, and Sizemore also shows off his talent at smashing things...