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...UNCOMMON FOR FILMMAKers to have problems with their stars, but writer-director David O. Russell had an unusual conflict while shooting his second feature film last year: Should he or should he not tell Alan Alda he had been a waiter at Alda's daughter's wedding just a few years earlier? "Every time I was about to, I thought, 'Don't tell him. He's not going to take your direction the same way if he knows that...
...faded Southern belle (with, naturally, a glass menagerie) who conceived Mel on a warehouse floor? Could Dad possibly be this truck-driving former Hell's Angel? Mel should be so lucky. For he turns out to be the get of the Schlictings (Alan Alda--as deliriously offcast as Moore--and Lily Tomlin), '60s dropouts who remain dangerously loyal to certain bad habits of their generation...
...that's already on 43 stations. Buchanan's talk show last year was picked up by more than 100 stations, enough for a $232,000 payday. A realistic goal now would be to overtake the 125 that carry defeated Senate candidate and radio talker Oliver North. Impassioned also-ran Alan Keyes, who used to host a talk show heard in 10 markets, could also return to the mike...
Though chess has lately been the best-publicized measure of a machine's humanity, it is not the standard gauge. That was invented by the great British computer scientist Alan Turing in a 1950 essay in the journal Mind. Turing set out to address the question "Can machines think?" and proposed what is now called the Turing test. Suppose an interrogator is communicating by keyboard with a series of entities that are concealed from view. Some entities are people, some are computers, and the interrogator has to guess which is which. To the extent that a computer fools interrogators...
...applaud the efforts of those students who protested the xenophobic proposals made by Senator Alan K. Simpson (R-Wyo.) during a speech at the Institute of Politics last week. In calling for 20 percent reductions in legal immigration levels each year for the next five years, Simpson disrespects our national immigrant heritage...