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This time around, Kevin has drained off the water to reveal the American West, post-nuclear war and winter. It's a surprisingly lush wasteland where every vestige of human progress has been destroyed--everything, that is, except for domesticated horses, line dancing, and Tom Petty. Oh, and electricity seems to have hung on, too. Wind and water power feed walled settlements where the remnants of humanity live like 19th century pioneers...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kevin Costner Goes Postal: Result Is Goofy But Goodhearted | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

...life has served as a rough cut of the screen dreams that Scream is now enabling. His fisherman father was the visual model for the killer in Last Summer. Mrs. Tingle will be his directorial debut. His struggling L.A. young-adulthood informs his in-development twentynothing TV drama Wasteland. The kid who once sat through six straight showings of Halloween recently met Jamie Lee Curtis for drinks at the Polo Lounge to swap ideas for Halloween 7, for which he wrote "a quick treatment as a favor to Harvey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BARD OF GEN-Y | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...child pornography to law enforcement officials, all the while combing their own sites for evildoers. But the focus of the conference is technology: computerized baby-sitting that can allay the fears of parents (and the government officials who need their votes) without turning the Web into an edge-less wasteland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore: Do it Yourselves | 12/2/1997 | See Source »

Children account for nearly two-thirds of these projects' population, and many of them have fathers who are either missing, in prison or dead. The firemen, therefore, stand among a handful of male role models in this urban wasteland. On their days off, they drop by to tutor children in chess and math and to encourage them to stay in school. Most important, they offer discipline, tenderness and inspiration to a community where such things are in terribly short supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW A FEW FIREMEN CREATED A SAFE HAVEN | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

BOSTON--In the midst of the vast, redbrick wasteland also known as City Hall Plaza sit 24 scrumptious varieties of apples, sold by the husband-and-wife team of Richard and Doris Nills...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, | Title: For This Couple, the Apples Keep On Selling | 11/12/1997 | See Source »

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