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...wins the Best Director Oscar on the monitor behind her for The Departed. That represents change, too. Then the inevitable happens - someone asks the first Britney Spears question of the night. Says Hudson of the pop star's meltdown, "I don't know what's going on and it ain't my business...
...Hanania laughs and lets rip with his version: "I'm an Arab, so we read from right to left. There's only one virgin, she's 72 years old, and they promise her to everybody. That ain't paradise." Hanania adds, "The best jokes are the ones that take on the toughest topics. If we allow the tough topics to define us, we become prisoners of that crap...
...boot camp of hell, and a sensitive man could die from it. "You don't belong in the Nam, man," a warwise soldier tells Chris (Charlie Sheen), who stands in for Stone as the narrator of Platoon. "This ain't your place at all." It is, though, and that is the rite-of-passage tragedy the film describes. For Chris is torn between the conflicting charismata of two sergeants: Elias (Willem Dafoe), a natural jungle fighter, and Barnes (Tom Berenger), a pure-blooded killer. Both men have a nice sense of their power?over themselves, their men and the enemy...
...terrified by that. I'm short and should have made peace with high heels long ago. But I have been through far more terrifying things in my life than a one-woman show, and it doesn't really compare to them. What's it like? It ain't comfortable, but it is getting more comfortable. I have a teleprompter - not that I need it because after all it is my life and I can remember most of it - but I like having it as a security blanket...
DIED. Bebe Moore Campbell, 56, commentator, essayist and author whose celebrated novels, including Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, examined America's race and class divides and opened a window into the lives of upwardly mobile blacks; of brain cancer; in Los Angeles. Literature left an early mark on Campbell. Her mother believed memorization was key to education, and pushed her to commit to memory passages ranging from Psalm 23 to Shakespeare to Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry. Education remained a theme in Campbell's life. She taught elementary school for five years before turning fully to writing but never...