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...Bruce Nelson, a Minnesota resident who, while catching frogs for catfish bait, realized that almost all of the frogs he caught were horribly deformed. The deformed frogs, which can have anywhere from zero to six legs, shrunken sex organs and missing eyes, are almost ubiquitous in Minnesota. Scientists are not sure what's causing the deformity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPEAK | 10/10/1996 | See Source »

...being scorned--and some curious men along for the ride--are helping The First Wives Club break records. Its $18.9 million opening weekend was the highest ever for a so-called women's film and captured more than one-third of the movie-going market from competition such as Bruce Willis' Last Man Standing. The characters played by Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler are like the Furies crossed with the Three Stooges--college friends spurned by their husbands in middle age who plan a madcap payback. But for all the one-liners and pratfalls, the movie is more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HELL HATH NO FURY | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...update this tradition. One is superb; another, which could easily have been dismissed as a curiosity, has surprising merit; while the third, the most eagerly anticipated of the three, falls well short of expectations. The cities: Los Angeles, Washington and New York. The books: I'm Losing You by Bruce Wagner (Villard; 319 pages; $23), Powertown by Michael Lind (HarperCollins; 264 pages; $23) and Manhattan Nocturne by Colin Harrison (Crown; 355 pages; $24). The themes: sex, power and degradation; sex, racism and violence; sex, murder and a 300-lb. version of Rupert Murdoch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: TALES OF THREE CITIES | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...Vegas hospital with a lung removed, an intestinal wound and two fingers missing, a security video turned up. It was shot not long before he was; it showed the casino area of the MGM Grand Hotel, where Shakur had stayed while in town for the Mike Tyson-Bruce Seldon heavyweight fight. According to hotel employees, the tape recorded the superstar rapper and his entourage brutally "beating and stomping" an unidentified man. The Las Vegas police have seen the tape, but they claim that its contents are unrelated to the hail of bullets that cut Shakur down two hours later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT GOES 'ROUND ... | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

...pictures for the William Morris Agency, had been offered Canton's job. Many observers were surprised, as Rifkin lacks executive experience. But since joining William Morris nearly four years ago, he has done much to re-energize the agency's sleepy movie business, adding such clients as Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis and Danny Glover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATER TORTURE | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

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