Cal State Fullerton - Titan Yearbook (Fullerton, CA)

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ENTERTAINMENT flash Torn Cruise stars in Jerry Magure, a romantic comedy about a sports agent who decides to change his shallow ways, and spends the rest of the movie trying to regain his success. It is a breekthrough role for Cruise, who is normally depicted as a cocky winner. To honor the SOth anniversary of its release, producer George Lucas issues a remade Star Wars, with new scenes, computeriied special effects and soupedmp animatian. Lucas ' grand plan calls tor a nii»film cycle, including prequels. EngKsh actor director Kenneth Branagh plays Hamlet in hts star- studded remake of Shakespeare ' s ciasstc Despte running fbur hours. the movie is a critical and faoiM ffics s u ccess . NBC Thursday night drama ER features television ' s first HIV- positive prominent charecter. Jeanie Boulet, a physician ' s assistartt played by Gkirw Reuben, is relatiiMly open about her cortdition and helps confront the stigma olAIDS. wm Patrick Stewart (left) and Brent Spiner (right] star in Star Trek: First Contact, a movie featuring cfiaracter s from the TV show Star Trel : The Next Generation. Ifwft.«k scon w Scott Adams ' Dilbert. the T comic strip about office politics, captures the nation ' s imagination In book form, The Dilbert Principle becomes a national best-seller. ■The Draw Shotti a zany sk-com about; workingclass Wamer Bros. TV from Shooting spmr ElEB Actors Winona Ryder and Daniel Day-Lewis star in The Crucible, which opens in December The screen adaption of Arthur Miller ' s famous play about the Salem witch trials is written by Arthur Miller himself. -. Academy Award- r winning actor Tom Hanks ' first effort at directing receives critical praise when That Thing You Do!, a movie about the meteoric rise and fall of a 1960s rock band, opens in October 201(1 Centurv Fox Ifom Shooting Slai : fan Model Brooke Shields [center] moves to television in NBC ' s Suddenly Susan, a sit-com premiering in September Shields plays a columnist opposite magazine editor Judd Nelson (far right]. ' Sherry Stringfield, Dr Susan Lewis on NBC ' s ER, leaves the show at the peak of her character ' s popularity. In her final episode, when Dr Mark Greene, played by Anthony Edwards, declares his love for Susan, the show garners Its highest ratings ever r I Author Michael I Crichton 1 publishes The Lost World, a I sequel to I Jurassic Park. the colossal novel and movie The new book promises to generate just as much hype, with a movie already in the works. iSiKi«

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' phane Cardinaie Svgni,i ' % In a small, secret ceremony on an island off the coast of Georgia, John F Kennedy Jr. marries Carolyn Bessette, a Calvin Klein publicist, in September. Kennedy who dated Bessette tor two years, had long been considered one of the world ' s most eligible bachelors. - New York Yankees fan Jeffrey 1 Maier interferes with a fly ball during game one of the American League Championship Series on October 9. The hit is ruled a home run. tying the game 4 to 4 In the eighth inning and making Maier New York ' s hero for a day m SHC e ' iJht ■Muhammad Al Etlie final athlete to Hiear the Olympic [torch, lighting the [Olympic flame at the opening of the ft, ' ' Olympics in Atlanta Ln July 19. ■■ Miss , Kansasjr JQf ftL Tara DavMn k ;!j bH Holland, is crowned Miss America at the H ' 1 996 pageant on L « September 14. k V Angela Lansbury appears in her final season as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher on CBS ' s Murder, She Wrote. The hugely successful show ran for 18 seasons. Basketball player Kobe Bryant joins the Los Angeles Lakers straight out of high school, signing a multi- million dollar contract during the team ' s 1 996-1 997 season. inedy Liliraiy ' More than 4,CXD0 items owned by former First Lady Jacquelyn Kennedy Onassis and President John R Kennedy are auctioned off in April 1996, including a necklace of simulated pearls shown in this 1 962 photograph. The fake pearls, valued at $500 to $700. sell for $21 1 ,500, bringing the auction total to $34.5 million. 1 nuk ■ Ti r Tj l yR Wmk J, m Lee AfchivePhoios J M ' m y - Veteran comedian George Burns T dies in March 1 998, |ust weeks after reaching the age of 100. The legendary Burns won an Oscar, an Emmy ind a Grammy Award in an illustrious career dating back to vaudeville. As a stand against the invasion of his privacy, George Clooney, star of NBC ' s ER, boycotts Paramount ' s Entertainment Tonight after its sister show Hard Copy runs unauthorized footage of the actor ' s private life. « ' ■ FACES

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- « featinug I neralm ' i. . Explosive special T effects rivet audiences to ther seats as tfiey watcfi Independence Day. one of summer ' s blockbuster movies. fc Bugs Bunny and Chiicago Bulls basketball star Michael Jordan basketball star Michael Jordan share top billing in Space Jam. a partially animated feature film that opens in late November 4 MinnjacIDf rts ' freteSrt o,|, cenlury Fox from Shooting Star Actors Brad Pitt (left) and Jason Patric star in Sleepers, a film about four men and iieir extraordinary scheme to evenge the abuse they experienced as boys The controversial movie also stars Dustin Hoffman. Robert De Niro and Kevin Bacon. ibtttte tree ami fi )siw to September, nardo prio and Claire ines star as the classic star-crossed in the film I and Juliet. Tom Cruise stars in Mission: Impossible, based on the 1 9BOs and ' 70s television series of the same name. Despite critical put-downs, the movie is a huge box-office hit. v John Lithgow (front right) T earns both an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in NBC ' s 3rd Rock From the Sun, a sit-com about a family of aliens living in contemporary America. , America ' s favorite sit-com T father. Bill Cosby en|oys the success of his new CBS show, Cosby In January 1997, however tragedy strikes as Cosby ' s son Ennis is killed in Los Angeles in an apparent random robbery ENTERTANMEN