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- Dec. 06, 1993: People
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Dec. 06, 1993 Castro's Cuba:The End Of The Dream
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- PEOPLE, Page 95
- By Ginia Bellafante
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- <body>
- <p>He Is Forever in His Depp
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- <p> The world is filled with first-time novelists hurtling to obscurity,
- authors who may spend the rest of their days writing Radio Shack
- ads. PETER HEDGES isn't one of them. Thanks in part to the support
- of unlikely bibliophile Johnny Depp, Hedges' debut novel, What's
- Eating Gilbert Grape, has been made into a movie in which Depp
- stars. Hedges is grateful: "If it weren't for Johnny, we wouldn't
- be talking right now. I'd be a bellhop."
- </p>
- <p>En Vogue in Vogue?
- </p>
- <p> Pop music's most bracing antidote to all that flannel, slinky
- R.-and-B. quartet EN VOGUE, is the one group you may find in
- Thierry Mugler but never in thermals. So chic are the vocalists
- that New York wunderkind designer Byron Lars--purveyor of
- pricey and elaborate body-hugging suits and separates--is
- negotiating to create a line of clothing inspired by the foursome.
- The En Vogue wear is intended to be somewhat more casual and
- somewhat less expensive than the standard fare Lars sells on
- Fifth Avenue, and the collection would be plugged in music-video
- ads featuring the seemingly well-aerobicized songbirds as models.
- Paradoxically, the En Voguers have also recently caught the
- attention of the distinctively unchic Roseanne and Tom Arnold,
- who are in the early stages of developing a television show
- based on the oh-so-likable girl group.
- </p>
- <p>The Spirit of Bipartisanship
- </p>
- <p> They are America's most celebrated avatars of the old theory
- that opposites attract: one managed Bill Clinton's presidential
- campaign, the other was a key strategist for George Bush; yet
- they have been an item for more than three years. On Thanksgiving
- Day, to the delight of 150 guests--who included the likes
- of Rush Limbaugh, George Stephanopoulos and Timothy Hutton--JAMES CARVILLE and MARY MATALIN laid down their ideological
- differences and married on Carville's home turf, New Orleans.
- Following a 20-minute civil ceremony, the couple, accompanied
- by a brass band, led their wedding party to a Creole turkey
- dinner at the city's landmark restaurant Arnaud's. Sensitive
- to the potential for fractiousness among their diverse group
- of guests, Mr. and Mrs. Carville wisely designated one bar for
- Republicans and a second for Democrats.
- </p>
- <p>SEEN & HEARD
- </p>
- <p> Surprise celebrity weddings may be all the rage, but Ellen Barkin
- and Gabriel Byrne are going for a surprise split. The couple,
- who seemed blissful as they touted their film Into the West,
- have separated "amicably" after five years of marriage.
- </p>
- <p> Least desirable Camelot bachelor William Kennedy Smith pleaded
- no contest to charges that he assaulted a bouncer at a Virginia
- bar. Smith believed, incorrectly, that the bouncer had teased
- him. The doctor was sentenced to perform 100 hours of medical
- service at a Chicago clinic.
- </p>
- <p> Rapper Tupac Shakur, who in the course of one month was arrested
- on charges that he shot two police officers and participated
- in the sodomizing of a young woman, thinks he is misunderstood.
- The writer of lyrics like "F------the police" told the New
- York Daily News that he'd been set up in the sodomy case. "How
- can I be a magnet for such trouble?" he asked. "It's so unlike
- my character and my songs."
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