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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!
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- <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?
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- <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.
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- <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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