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- <title>
- Mar. 07, 1994: People
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Mar. 07, 1994 The Spy
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 77
- By Ginia Bellafante
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>A REAL SOMEWHERE MAN
- </p>
- <p> A bold actor in the Brad Pitt school of buff, STEPHEN DORFF
- showed promise as a South African boxer in the 1992 film The
- Power of One. That promise has landed him one of this year's
- most intriguing roles: as forgotten fifth Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe
- in next month's Back Beat. Sutcliffe, an art-school friend of
- John Lennon's, played bass. "I'm proud of the movie," says Dorff,
- whose parents felt he was too meek to confront the constant
- rejections of an acting career. "It allows the audience to see
- the Beatles in a raw period."
- </p>
- <p>SEEN & HEARD
- </p>
- <p> Jack Nicholson apparently is not the sort of driver who deals
- with traffic jams by calmly turning up the Kenny G. A Los Angeles
- motorist claims that when he stopped at a red light next to
- Nicholson, the actor smashed his windshield with a golf club.
- The driver has filed suit against the star.
- </p>
- <p> According to Peter Gabriel, what the world of home shopping
- really needs is fewer baubles and more batik. The British rocker
- is helping launch a TV shopping show that will offer a full
- range of Third World products and services, everything from
- Indonesian baskets to eco-tours of Brazil.
- </p>
- <p> Nudity is still rare on the Broadway stage, and the last place
- one would expect to find it is in the work of Stephen Sondheim.
- Yet when his newest musical, Passion, opens on Broadway next
- month, it will begin with a song performed by two nude young
- lovers. The show, says Sondheim, "is about emotional nakedness."
- </p>
- <p>JOHNNY'S PLAY: KISS ME KATE
- </p>
- <p> His 8 1/2-minute surrealistic film on the dangers of drug use
- was not the only personal project JOHNNY DEPP introduced at
- the L.A. night spot Smash Box last week. There, at an 800-person
- Vogue benefit for the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program,
- the brooding faux teen also made very public his newfound fondness
- for model KATE MOSS. The two have been dating quietly during
- the past several weeks. On hand to witness the L.A. premiere
- of their blossoming young love: Billy Baldwin, Ben Stiller and
- Depp-ex Tatjana Patitz.
- </p>
- <p>CELEBRITY DYSFUNCTION
- </p>
- <p> Family reunions are often marred by tensions, misunderstandings
- and the drunken tirades of third cousins. But when the Jacksons
- convene--and when they do it on network television--the
- chance for ungainly spectacle increases immeasurably. So when
- the clan gathered for The Jackson Family Honors, a charity event
- to honor Michael confidante ELIZABETH TAYLOR and record mogul
- Berry Gordy, the worries were multiple. Would the MICHAEL JACKSON
- sex scandal cast a cloud over the affair? Would tell-all sister
- La Toya show up disguised as an Arab? She had threatened to,
- but stayed away. Still, there were embarrassments aplenty, chief
- among them Michael's refusal to sing solo and an overwrought
- speech by Taylor praising her friend as "the brightest star
- in the universe."
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
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