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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This time, by golly, no one would call George Bush timid. Quite the contrary, the President made a rare appearance as Bush the riverboat gambler. By sending a high-level delegation to Beijing to confer with Chinese authorities who only six months earlier had ordered the massacre of pro-democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush The Riverboat Gambler | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

What does he have that separates him from the Brat Pack? He's not as lovely as Rob Lowe. He doesn't explode, on- or off-camera, as ripely as Sean Penn. "Tom is at a disadvantage," says Barry Levinson, his Rain Man director. "He's got a pretty face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Ron knows only what he has been taught: by his family's suffocatingly pious Catholicism, by the suave belligerence of President Kennedy's Inaugural Address, by his drill sergeant of a high school wrestling coach, by the Marine recruiter looking for a few good men. Men! Ron wants to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Whereas Platoon had news value, Born on the Fourth of July tells a familiar story; it wants to teach us what we already know. The movie's uniqueness is in its tone. Stone plays director as if he were at a cathedral organ with all the stops out. Each scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV was born on the third of July, 1962, the third child of Mary Lee and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer. Cruise has three sisters: Lee Anne, 30; Cass, 26; and Marian, 28. Dad had to follow the work, and the family followed Dad; young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

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