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...their hats. Iraqis, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said recently, will "figure out a way to manage their affairs" that will be "consistent with the principles that we set out." (Those principles, just so you know, don't extend to an "Iranian-type government," which, quoth the good Secretary, "ain't gonna happen...
...Madonna's lyrics are to be trusted--and given her penchant for public disguise, that's a big if--then mark my words: something ain't right at the Ciccone-Ritchie home. Presumptuous? Maybe. But a casual glance at the lyric sheet for American Life, Madonna's bipolar 10th album, proves that at the very least, the world's most famous yoga-practicing B-movie Cabalist is going through a rough patch. If you don't believe her words, listen to her voice. American Life is the first Madonna record that suffers from a complete lack of exuberance...
Myth #2 :: Harvard ain't no Notre Dame
...lite antiterrorist unit to help in the hunt for the tourists, 18 of whom are German nationals, after Interior Minister Otto Schily visited Algiers. Fears grew that the travelers, the first of whom went missing in mid-February, were kidnapped by Islamic extremists. MEANWHILE IN ITALY ... Saints They Ain't Italian police are scouring the convents of northern Italy looking for four nuns involved in a hit-and-run accident in which they failed to heed a stop sign and crashed into a Mercedes. The victim, an elderly Bergamo shopkeeper, was uninjured...
...Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!" cried Al Jolson halfway through The Jazz Singer. Jolson's urgent, boastful bray--an ad-libbed intro to his rendition of Toot Toot Tootsie--cut through the opening-night audience at the Warner Theatre near Times Square like an obstetrician's scissors severing the umbilical cord to silent films, for 30 years the dominant screen language. But the movies had to talk. Thomas Edison thought so. He and his assistant W.K.L. Dickson had devised a talking-movie machine as early as 1889. In the early '20s short sound...