Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Blake Edwards' plot is standard gender bender fare: Victoria Grant, an Alabama soprano penniless in 1930s Paris, is persuaded by the gay Toddy (Jamie Ross) to pretend that she is really a man playing a woman. Who better, after all, to play a woman than a real woman? Victoria thus becomes 'Count Victor Grazinsky, Europe's greatest female impersonator and soon finds herself the reception of much acclaim. However, as she achieves success, she finds herself falling for King Marchan (Dennis Cole), a Chicago businessman/gangster, who in turn is anguished by his attraction to this 'man.' In this happy world...
...story did he reveal to us that "the little boy in the photo is me." Another photo intrigued an Argentine woman who asked about a picture in our 75th-anniversary issue showing a little girl receiving a polio shot. Even though the caption said the photo was taken in Alabama, and our reader had no recollection of ever having lived there, she thought, just maybe, it was she. Go figure...
...York, Karolyn Kern Shepard, Glenn's mother, are as fiercely competitive as men; Karolyn was taught to hunt by her father. But hunters' organizations claim the arrival of new women hunters, including a number of single mothers taking their children out, has dampened the trophy mentality. One woman in Alabama recently took up hunting and says it saved her marriage; she finally had something she and her husband enjoyed doing together...
...from Big Coon Creek, near the town of Skyline, in northeastern Alabama, Cedric Stephens, 13, and his father wait for two hours on a mountainside, leaning against a hardwood tree in a misting rain. Miserable hunting. Just as they are about to give it up, Cedric sees antlers coming toward...
...other big technology story, the Microsoft trial, we've turned to someone who loves computers and also knows something about law. Staff writer Adam Cohen, a graduate of Harvard Law School, has practiced in New York and Alabama. This week he takes on the type of question we like to ask: What if the dog actually catches the car? In this instance the question is what might actually happen to Microsoft if the government wins. "In antitrust law, finding companies guilty is easy," says Cohen. "The tough part is coming up with a remedy that forces hard-nosed competitors like...