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That hit comedy--which won Murphy the year's Best Actor award from the National Society of Film Critics and, in a just world, would snag him an Oscar nomination--was like a great date with an old lover fresh from rehab. Eddie was once again cute, dazzling, working overtime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CRIMINAL MISCONDUCT | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

Even if these phrases were the nastiest bomb mots on earth, who'd want a civilization without frequent hits of wicked wit? The real reason modular meanness grates isn't the meanness--it's the modularness.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YADDA, YADDA, YADDA | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

The grimness of this new Darwinian worldview has been stressed by the biologist George Williams, whose 1966 book Adaptation and Natural Selection laid its theoretical foundations. Rather like the World War II physicists who were horrified by the weapon they had invented, Williams blanches at the view of human nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCIENCE AND ORIGINAL SIN | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

Midway into the first encore, Doughty belted out the first few words of "Like a Prayer," which the rest of the crowd repeated back, and his recital of "Day in the Life" drew the applause and whistles of many slightly older members of the crowd. Songs like "Super Bon Bon...

Author: By Khoa Le, | Title: If You're White Bread And You Know It, Cough! | 10/24/1996 | See Source »

After a short stint at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Gwyneth rushed into film work. In the 1991 Shout, she escorted John Travolta through his fallow period, and she played Peter Pan's young Wendy in the hollow that was Hook. She got a break at 19 when she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A TOUCH OF CLASS | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

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