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...movie That Thing You Do! The leading lady is SCHUYLER FISK, 19, daughter of Sissy Spacek and director Jack Fisk. She was in her father's film Daddy's Dyin'...Who's Got the Will? The lowborn Jack Black provides a dose of plebeian grit, but in the director's chair is Jake Kasdan, 26, in charge of his second Hollywood feature after appearing in '80s dramas The Big Chill and The Accidental Tourist--both directed by, you guessed it, his dad Lawrence Kasdan. At least Hollywood and President Bush see eye to eye on some issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 14, 2002 | 1/14/2002 | See Source »

...here one of our party's soldiers showed his grit. "If anyone refuses to go I will make them," he said, using his finger to pull an imaginary trigger aimed at a reluctant driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into the Heart of Baghran | 1/9/2002 | See Source »

...Baghran, saying "if you paid me $500 I would not give you a vehicle, so badly damaged would it be." His stories panicked some our drivers and fixers, sparking a heated debate on the merits of continuing. It was here one of our party's soldiers showed his grit. "If anyone refuses to go I will make them," he said, using his finger to pull an imaginary trigger aimed at a reluctant driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into the Heart of Baghran | 1/9/2002 | See Source »

...have good resumes--one co-wrote Can't Buy Me Love, the other co-wrote (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction--and both have kept in practice as working musicians over the years. While Mick's new tranquillity gets old fast, it turns out that Paul actually has the grit to pull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: As Good As Yesterday? | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

...Taliban, they are also searching for ways to satisfy their children's curiosity. Ellis' starkly realistic novel, billed as the only children's book out on the subject in English, is expected to have almost 150,000 copies in print by year's end. The novel has the grit of a survivor's tale, which it is in part. Ellis based the story on the daughter of an Afghan woman she met while working in a Pakistani refugee camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Veil of Tears | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

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