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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Keating (Robin Williams) says, "Pritchart is excrement...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: You Can't Quantify `Dead Poet's' | 6/30/1989 | See Source »

ALTHOUGH casting Williams as Keating is misleading, since a Robin Williams role usually means humor, Williams' versatility is well-evidenced in this film. Solemn, intense, still a school-boy, but wiser than his years--everything that a teacher-who-changed-my-life always is--Williams is perfect supporting role for the unfolding drama of the boys' coming...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: You Can't Quantify `Dead Poet's' | 6/30/1989 | See Source »

THEFT OF FUNDS. The Justice Department last week launched a nationwide inquiry into a pattern of abuse by escrow agents who pocketed money they received from the sale of foreclosed homes over a four-year period. Among the targets is a Maryland woman, nicknamed "Robin Hud," who brags that she stole $5.5 million in HUD money and gave it to the poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Housing Hustle | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...Robin Williams is a Mr. Chips with a mission: to inspire his '50s prep school students with reckless passion. Like director Peter Weir, Williams is dead ) serious this time, donating his celebrity to an imperfect but valuable adolescent drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jun. 19, 1989 | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...Burton's approach is dead serious. He renounces the bright palette, the easy thrills, to aim for a psychodrama with the force of myth. He creates a Gotham City that looms like a rube's nightmare of Manhattan. He strips the Bruce Wayne legend down to its chassis, dumping Robin and the goony rogues' gallery. This is a face-off between two men in weird masks: one in a leathery black item out of a dominatrix's pleasure chest, the other with a grin frozen into a rictus. One man obsessed with good, the other enthralled by evil: Batman (Michael...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Murk in The Myth | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

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