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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only reason I know French is because I flunked the course so many times that it sunk in by osmosis." Lemmon said at the Kennedy Center Honors award ceremony...

Author: By Jay S. Kimmelman, | Title: 'Some Like It Hot': After Two Oscars. Lemmon Still Sizzles | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...equivalent of a complete issue of TIME produced by a single writer. "I felt like a stable owner who had sunk all his money into one Thoroughbred," says assistant managing editor Christopher Porterfield, who oversaw the project. Happily for us, Hughes never pulled up lame. His insight and his vigorous prose perfectly frame the lavish illustrations, which range from a 17th century Puritan headstone to Jackson Pollock's energetic Abstract Expressionism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSPECTIVE ON AMERICA | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

...decides to change his life around. Eight years later he is mayor and the owner of a factory, where a girl named Fantine (Lisa Capps) is thrown out because its discovered that she has an illegitimate child in another city. When she and Valjean meet again, she has sunk to whoring herself for money to buy her sick daughter medicine...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: 'Les Miserables': Still Amazing After All These Years | 5/16/1997 | See Source »

...also know that we are in for a very long day's journey on writer-director Bruce Beresford's endlessly predictable Paradise Road. Do we know that the ship carrying the women and children to safety as Singapore surrenders will be sunk, Red Cross markings or not? Can we predict that the well-spoken Japanese officer some of the survivors meet when they stumble ashore on Sumatra will turn out to be a sadist? When the commandant of the camp where they're interned appears, are we not instantly certain he studied penology with Colonel Saito over on the River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE ROAD TOO WELL TRAVELED | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...also know that we are in for a very long day?s journey on writer-director Bruce Beresford?s endlessly predictable 'Paradise Road,'" says TIME's Richard Schickel. "Do we know that the ship carrying the women and children to safety as Singapore surrenders to the Japanese will be sunk, Red Cross markings or not? Can we predict that the well-spoken Japanese officer some of the survivors meet when they stumble ashore on Sumatra will turn out to be a sadist? When the commandant of the camp where they?re interned appears, are we not instantly certain he studied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 4/4/1997 | See Source »

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