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...AWARDED. ALAN HOLLINGHURST, 50, British author; the Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty, the first novel with an overtly gay theme to win the literary award; in London. Of Hollinghurst's evocative tale of a young hedonist in Thatcherite London, Man Booker panel chairman Chris Smith said, "The fact it can be considered as a perfectly valid part of contemporary fiction without regarding [gay relationships] as unique shows how much times have changed...
Virtually every Parker production wants to be a musical, and Team America somehow accommodates eight songs that poke fun in the eye of the Broadway-style ballad (Kim warbles "I'm So Ronery"), the Alan Jackson inspirational anthem ("Freedom Isn't Free") and Bruckheimer's costliest epic ("I miss you/ More than Michael Bay missed the mark when he made Pearl Harbor"). They keep the smiles coming until the end, when the film goes numbingly nuts and expends all its imagination on ways to kill off people like Helen Hunt and Janeane Garofalo...
...Young, decided that it would set a dangerous precedent to withdraw Hamm's medal, won at the Summer Olympics in Athens, despite a scoring error that cost bronze medalist Yang a crucial one-tenth of a point, which would have been enough to earn him the gold. AWARDED. to ALAN HOLLINGHURST, 50, British author; the Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty, the first novel with an overtly gay theme to win the literary award; in London. Of Hollinghurst's evocative tale of a young hedonist in Thatcherite London, Man Booker panel chairman Chris Smith said, "The fact...
Tatar says that she uses her bicycle as the main means of transportation, and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz said that he purposely parks far away from his destination in order to fit in more walking...
...other Democrats shared more of Barack Obama's good fortune, they would have a better chance of recapturing the Senate. First, his G.O.P. opponent, Jack Ryan, dropped out after revelations of his alleged visits to sex clubs. Then Ryan's replacement, conservative agitator Alan Keyes, alienated his party with extremist rhetoric on abortion and homosexuality. Obama, a charismatic state senator, wowed the Democratic Convention, presenting himself as an optimistic coalition builder. The Senate shoo-in isn't just lucky, he's self-effacing about his success as well...