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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sailed so majestically while pursuing fly balls across the green expanses of center field. His batting skill won him the sobriquet "Joltin' Joe." Meanwhile, the young man from Fisherman's Wharf was acquiring a Manhattan polish. He took up tailored suits and the high life at Toots Shor's nightclub, where the habitues treated him like a god who had inexplicably deigned to join their mortal company. He dated beautiful women, including actress Dorothy Arnold, whom he later married and with whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Left and Gone Away: JOE DIMAGGIO (1914-1999) | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

Gandolfini discovered the stage after spending years as a Manhattan bouncer and nightclub manager. When a friend took him to an acting class in the late '80s, he was left so unsettled and challenged by a focusing exercise that involved threading a needle that he knew he had to return. "I'd also never been around actors before," says Gandolfini, "and I said to myself, 'These people are nuts; this is kind of interesting.'" After touring Scandinavia in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire ("I remember lots of old people falling asleep in dinner theaters," he says), Gandolfini immersed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Call Him a Made Man | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

Gibbons, however, says Brown University, which is located in urban Providence R.I., supports a student nightclub called "The underground," which features funk, jazz, and rock music, as well as alcohol for those over...

Author: By Jennifer M. Siegel, | Title: Play That Funky Music | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...nonstop obscenities faithfully transcribed in the name of realism, Street Kingdom can be a dramatic subway safari. Shuttling between Manhattan and Brooklyn, Century is an enthusiastic guide to polyglot and polychrome New York City. When outlaw and author first met nearly seven years ago at a lower Manhattan nightclub, K was trying to make it as a hip-hop lyricist and performer. He had the look (270 lbs. of muscular intimidation draped in clothing loose enough to conceal an arsenal) and a showman's instincts. In the book his stage name is American Dread, suggesting both the nation's historical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hoods and Hustlers | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

Kevin Richardson, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, AJ McLean and Nick Carter came out of nowhere (Orlando) last year, five clean-shaven, moussed-and-gelled actors-turned-singers with the uncanny ability to harmonize their voices. Within weeks, the nightclub beats, two-note bass lines and the way they managed to look so damn sexy in those baggy jeans won the Boys international attention. An instant favorite among the twelve and thirteen year-old set and a must-have on birthday party playlists around the world, the Backstreet Boys became media darlings as well...

Author: By Frankie J. Petrosino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grammy Watch | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

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