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...whole affair carried disquieting echoes of the march to war against Iraq. Once again, unnamed sources gave the essential details in advance to the New York Times. Tehran, predictably, denied the allegations. A Pentagon official likened it to "a brushback pitch" designed to highlight Iranian mischief without the drumbeat of war that would have reverberated throughout the country if a senior Administration official had pointed the finger...
While playing for the Washington Redskins, Kopay says, he had an ongoing affair with teammate Jerry Smith--who died of AIDS in 1986. The former heartthrob running back insists that being honest about his sexuality cost him NFL coaching jobs. He has been a buyer at Linoleum City in Hollywood for two decades...
...opportunity,” and Covett parlays Sheba’s guilt at being discovered making love to one of her students (catch the Biblical reference?) into what she believes is a romantic relationship. But when she discovers that Sheba and her student have kept up their affair, her delicately constructed self-delusion collapses, or rather explodes, taking everyone nearby with it. Director Richard Eyre has an eye for thorny romance: his last film, 2004’s “Stage Beauty,” wrapped Claire Danes and Billy Crudup in questions of gender identity and theatricality...
...whole affair represents something sordid about our obsession with on-screen perfection. We have moved from adult admiration of Marilyn Monroe’s alabaster complexion to perfectly crafted and precociously sexualized children. I don’t like to think where Hollywood will take us next...
...politics, business, media), you need to hypocritically pretend to not see what Italian soccer wants and knows how to be: a world unto itself." Sounds like a religion indeed. And as Italians know as well as anyone, managing the relationship between Church and State is never a simple affair...