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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have cinched his status as Hollywood's new romantic leading man. With his tall, rangy good looks and cool American strength, Costner, 32, is an old-fashioned movie hero. Like such stars as Gary Cooper, Clark Gable and Jimmy Stewart, he can fill the screen with what Director Billy Wilder has called "flesh impact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hollywood Rediscovers Romance | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

...inmates ahead of schedule. Even with quarters for 5,500 more prisoners in the planning stage, the state is still on the hunt for additional rooms at low-budget costs. Says Andy Collins, deputy director of operations for the prison system: "We're looking at everything seriously. The wilder ideas are looking better and better every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prisons: More Rooms for The Big House | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

...stage and screen who won quick fame in 1966 with an Academy Award nomination for her role in the film A Patch of Blue and subsequently co-starred in The Group (1966), The Fixer (1968) and Walking Tall (1973), as well as a 1969 Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder's Our Town; in an apparent suicide leap from her fifth-floor apartment; in Pittsburgh. Hartman was an outpatient of a Pittsburgh psychiatric hospital, where she was being treated for depression that reportedly stemmed from the decline of her acting career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 22, 1987 | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

...autobiographer who, in the great tradition, bares just enough to keep it interesting but not enough to worry the censors. Her offscreen memoirs offer a short course in studio politics and a long list of amours, including Hughes, Robert Taylor, Robert Stack, the Shah of Iran's brother, Billy Wilder, Burt Lancaster and, most notably, Aly Kahn ("He didn't take a woman, he tasted and taunted"). In his musical Follies, Stephen Sondheim wrote a song for the actress, I'm Still Here, about a survivor. After nearly half a century in the business, De Carlo, 64, is not afraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Apr. 13, 1987 | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

Hall began farming years ago in Nottinghamshire, England. He is a rangy, bearded man who looks like D.H. Lawrence without the haunted introversion. "I always craved wilder conditions," Hall says, matter-of-factly. "I just don't like civilization in any form." The sight of a paved road incenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

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