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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nelson Fairchild Jr. is by no means the scariest of these, but he has the problems--and dreams up the solutions--that set a very complicated plot into irreversible overdrive. The alcoholic son of a Northern California land baron, Nelson wants to leave his wife Winona but cannot without impoverishing himself. His tyrannical (and Roman Catholic) father has given Winona title to the house and property as a means of discouraging divorce. But Nelson needs money fast; he chickened out of a cocaine-smuggling scheme in the Rome airport, and now owes an irate druglord back home nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: CALIFORNIA BAD DREAMING | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...stranger he has just rescued from a drowning-suicide attempt in a pond near his wife's house. Here, Nelson believes, is an answered prayer. Since Van Ness seems intent on killing himself--because he believes himself, for reasons unclear, already dead--why would he mind taking out Winona before completing the job on himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: CALIFORNIA BAD DREAMING | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...awards and hundreds of thousands of subscribers as the first teen magazine to pay homage to girls uninterested in bubble-gum pop and the notion that true love flows only to those who wear tube tops. In 1989 came the cult film Heathers, featuring a 17-year-old Winona Ryder as a teenager who undiplomatically cleanses her social pool of its more loathsomely superficial members. And throughout it all brewed the Riot Grrrl movement, a much hyped and ultimately successful effort by popular female punk bands to make rock less boycentric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEWITCHING TEEN HEROINES | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...road to publicity hell for WINONA RYDER was paved with others' good intentions. As part of the national Kick Butts Day, Molly Patterson, a student from Petaluma, California, decided she and her classmates would write an open letter to hometown girl Ryder asking her to stop smoking in movies. Before the letter was sent, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, sensing a good way to spread its message, told the media about it. Ryder, who has lit up in four of her 18 movies (including Reality Bites, above) was horrified at the story and phoned Patterson at school. She also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 21, 1997 | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

Cineplexes will turn into pre-med lecture halls for the study of leukemia (Marvin's Room, with Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro) and mental illness (Shine, the acclaimed Australian film about pianist David Helfgott). There also will be political seminars on intolerance (The Crucible, with Winona Ryder and Daniel Day-Lewis) and the First Amendment as it applies to porn peddlers (The People vs. Larry Flynt, with Woody Harrelson and Courtney Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A BOUNTY OF HOLIDAY TREATS | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

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