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...makes sense, of course, that the candidates would fall over themselves to appear onscreen with the most powerful woman in America. And in the past week, both Gore and Bush have appeared on the spectacularly popular daytime talk show; each sat down with Oprah herself for 60 minutes of free television time. I sat down to watch the shows, hoping against hope for some substance, a little bit of weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey, Guys! Enough of This Mushy 'Oprah' Stuff! | 9/19/2000 | See Source »

...surveillance systems that scan travelers for contraband using low-power X-rays, which reveal the shape of a person's navel and other, more private parts. The scans are voluntary, so we asked a few privacy experts if they'd rather be patted down by a guard or ogled onscreen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting a Bum Deal? | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

...Brother)--Houston plays a corrupt ice hockey agent/Mob boss who embodies all the evils of the capitalist Red, White and Blue. "News to me," says Houston of his megahuge status in Murmansk. "I haven't seen the movie yet." Houston isn't even 100% sure his nefarious character dies onscreen, but he definitely won't be cruising to Moscow anytime soon to seek the trappings of fame. "No, I'm not that stupid," he says. "I'd go over there if they'd offer me another job, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 7, 2000 | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

...tempted to look for the actor's true self in some of the Ealing Studios comedies, perhaps "The Lavender Hill Mob" and its wan-on-the-outside hero, or the fabric wizard and social innocent of "The Man in the White Suit." But thinking that's Guinness up there onscreen is a mistake. He once said, "I try to get inside a character and project him - one of my own private rules of thumb is that I have not got a character until I have mastered exactly how he walks.... It's not sufficient to concentrate on his looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sir Alec Guinness, 1914-2000 | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

Baker gave foul-mouthed Granny a makeover, endowing her with more wrinkles and elongated but bouncy breasts. He also created an 8-ft.-tall hamster made monstrous by a bad batch of youth formula. Special-effects supervisor Jon Farhat put the Klumps together onscreen through digital magic--the same magic that enables Baker's giant hamster to attack a group of scientists with cannonball-size pellets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Making Faces | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

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