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Dec. 31, 1990: People:Best Of '90
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Dec. 31, 1990 The Best Of '90
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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PEOPLE, Page 60
BEST OF '90
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<p> Macaulay Culkin. Call him the Million-Dollar Kid. More than
$100 million, in fact, a box-office take that has made his flick
Home Alone the hit of the Christmas season. He's cute, he's
sassy, and moviegoers just eat him up. The 10-year-old from
Manhattan is said to have a million-dollar deal under his belt
for his next picture and is well on his way to making movie-kid
history. Give 'em heck, Mac!
</p>
<p> Barbara Bush. Let's just say it's been an interesting year
for the First Lady. She told of being accosted by a rat in her
swimming pool, transcribed a best-selling book for the White
House's top dog Millie and wore fatigues while spending
Thanksgiving with troops in Saudi Arabia. Somewhere in the midst
of all this, she found time to further the cause of literacy and
buy her clothes off the rack. How can anyone not love this
woman?
</p>
<p> Bo Jackson. Is he really clairvoyant? His Nike ads insist
that "Bo Knows" every sport and just about everything. And in
1990 he led the N.F.L.'s Los Angeles Raiders into their first
play-off spot since the 1985 season. But the baseball-football
icon takes it in stride as he continues to dazzle from both
fields. He even produced an autobiography, which tells of his
impoverished upbringing in Alabama.
</p>
<p> Jane Pauley. Just like everyone's mom, she was adored but
taken for granted. Then her departure from the Today show
lowered the ratings and brought fans swarming out of the
woodwork, showering her with appreciation. NBC executives
scrambled to keep their popular newswoman, making her the star
of her own prime-time show.
</p>
<p> Julia Roberts. One way to get a romance flick to soar is to
have this gorgeous 23-year-old star in it. Her hit of the year,
Pretty Woman, in which she played a "nice" prostitute who does
megashopping on Rodeo Drive, not only made her a household name
but also turned in $178 million at the box office and showed
that a movie didn't need a huge body count to make it big.
</p>
<p> 2 Live Crew. You can bet Me So Horny wasn't your average
love song. With their As Nasty As They Wanna Be album, the rap
group attracted parental ire and Fundamentalist fire. No one
denied that the lyrics were raunchy, but the jurors at the
group's Florida obscenity trial were so tickled that they asked
the judge for permission to laugh during the proceedings. Then
they promptly acquitted the rappers.
</p>
<p> Ann Richards. The lady has a lot of spunk. How else could
she have survived one of the nastiest gubernatorial races Texas
has ever seen? When her opponents brought up her past alcohol
problems, she fired right back with charges of her own. And she
maintained enough class to convince even the staunchest good ole
boys of east Texas that she, and not Republican Clayton
Williams, belonged in the Governor's office.
</p>
<p> John F. Kennedy Jr. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius,"
he said after failing the New York State bar exam for the second
time. So what! He's still the most eligible and photogenic
bachelor around. He ended the year with a big bash for his 30th
birthday and, yes, folks, he finally did manage to pass that
pesky test. His $4,000 raise as assistant Manhattan D.A. should
help him pay the bar bills.
</p>
<p> Madonna. Yes, after seven years she's still getting folks
to pay attention to her. She threatened nonvoters with
spankings, wooed Warren Beatty on- and offscreen and beat MTV
at its own game by turning the station's rejection of her latest
video into big bucks for herself. Why? Because, as she told
Nightline's Forrest Sawyer, "I'm in charge."
</p>
<p> David Souter. Bush's obscure pick for the nation's highest
bench had everyone wondering just who this
fresh-out-of-the-woods New Hampshirite was. He wouldn't say how
he stood on the hot issues, but with his confirmation behind
him, frankness has made him the darling of the Washington press
corps. His work hours leave little time for socializing, yet he
did manage to squeeze in a brief conversation in Latin with an
ambassador's wife.
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