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...often described the trip to Harvard like rehab,” Ventura says in a phone interview from his home state. “It’s like a drug addict being able to go to the Betty Ford Clinic...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jesse Ventura: Ex-wrestler, governor shakes up K-School | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...cholesterol count shot up alarmingly. Some are less so: the amount of damage he did to his liver was roughly the same as if he had been on an alcohol binge of a similar duration. There is also evidence that he became something of a fast-food addict, with his sense of well-being increasingly dependent on the rush his fat-and fructose-laden eats provided. You come away from his film convinced that "Happy Meal" is something more than a trademark. For a certain class of Americans, it is the cheapest available source of bliss--ephemeral yet palpable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Obesity Crisis:Film review: Pigging Out to Make a Point | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...said with a big smile, ?The Jury is DELIGHTED to award....? Yuya Yagira, the 14-year-old star of Hirokazu Kore-eda?s poignant Japanese drama ?Nobody Knows,? won the Best Actor prize. Best Actress went to Hong Kong?s Maggie Cheung for her role as a drug addict fighting to reclaim her young son in ?Clean,? a Franco-Canadian drama - and a rather laggard, predictable one - directed by Cheung?s ex-husband Olivier Assayas. Ironically, Cheung won over Zhang Ziyi, the star of ?2046.? Cheung had shot some scenes for that film, but was not evident in the print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palms Up for Michael Moore, Thumbs Down for Bush | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

...course! Because the choice all of us have is either gambler, drug addict, drunk, or wife beater! On last check, grammar schools across the country weren’t lining up to book Charlie Hustle as a guest speaker...

Author: By David H. Stearns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE COMMISH: What Were They Thinking? | 4/8/2004 | See Source »

Milch knows a thing or two about the addict's mind-set. While studying and working at Yale in the '60s and '70s under literary giants Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, he says he led a double life as a heroin junkie and gambling addict before cleaning up and becoming a writer for Hill Street Blues. Addicts and gamblers, says Milch, have a "risk taker" personality--just like prospectors, which is why so few of them got rich and so many saloonkeepers did. Says director-producer Davis Guggenheim: Milch has "something most people with intellect don't have--very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: True Grit | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

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