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Most Overexposed Underachiever Bart Simpson, the caustic cartoon kid who starred in a hit prime-time series, got his bug-eyed mug on everything from T shirts to key chains. Bill Cosby, eat his shorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Most of Show Business | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

Most Out-of-Tune Experiment Steven Bochco's musical series Cop Rock, with soft-shoe gumshoes and gospel jubilation in the jury box, was found guilty of being off key and sentenced to oblivion. So much for the networks' new spirit of innovation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Most of Show Business | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

Schwarzenegger knows no other way to do it. His first notable Hollywood film was Stay Hungry, and that might be the key to his success. "You've got to be hungry," he says, "otherwise you can't be motivated." The hunger, the motivation, the four-wheel drive, have helped this Gargantua from Austria embody a real-life American Dream story -- poor boy to champion body builder to movie curiosity to nonpareil megastar -- that is so improbable even Hollywood would be embarrassed to put it into production. They have also made him, at 43, the most potent symbol of worldwide dominance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Brawn | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...centerpiece of New Kuwait, the key to everything its leaders envision, will be an unprecedented demographic make-over. As quickly as possible, Kuwait's population will be dramatically reduced, perhaps even halved. "How * do you get people to actually stop being lazy?" asks Ambassador Saud. "Why should anyone care about a real education, or making do with fewer handouts?" asks Hasan al-Ebraheem. The answer is that nothing will change unless everything changes. And the way for everything to change is to take a country that had more than 2 million people before August and recreate it with only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toward A New Kuwait | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

Just as the auto industry determines the basic health and output of a host of other industries (steel, plastics, rubber), the American entertainment business has become a driving force behind other key segments of the country's economy. As a result of this so-called multiplier effect, the products and profits of dozens of U.S. industries are umbilically tied to American entertainment: fast food, communications technology, sportswear, toys and games, sporting goods, advertising, travel, consumer electronics and so on. And the underlying strength of the American economy, many economists believe, has a lot to do with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Leisure Empire | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

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