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...left-handed guitars. He played one onstage with Pink Floyd, hobnobbed with various Beatles and had Procul Harum play parties in his North London home - anything to avoid writing. "I'm a man of obsessive enthusiasms," he said. "Great bursts of energy followed by two days in bed." Amid a scandalous affair with married novelist Sally Emerson, he was twice stopped for DWK (driving while kissing). In 1991 he married Jane Belson, a level-headed British barrister, but retained one obsession: making Hitchhiker into a movie. Simpson chronicles that campaign, which culminated in the writer's 1999 move to California...
...said that security concerns prevented them from traveling to the capital, Yamoussoukro. Nuclear Fears NORTH KOREA Tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear program remained high as the U.S. resumed spy-plane flights near North Korea and announced that the country could be only months away from producing weapons-grade uranium. Amid concerns that Pyongyang was preparing to test a ballistic missile capable of reaching the Japanese mainland, Japan dispatched a reconnaissance ship toward the Korean peninsula and news reports said Tokyo was mulling sanctions if the test went ahead. MEANWHILE IN THAILAND ... Crimes of Passion Thai police have to fight...
Closing with the sight of newly-elected president Nelson Mandela gleefully dancing amid throngs of followers, Amandla constantly reaffirms the humanity and emotion of both its Afrikaaner and black South African subjects...
Meanwhile, amid all the Iraq preparations, America is still fighting a perfectly good war--in Afghanistan and elsewhere--that has largely vanished from the screen. That war is the subject of ABC's Profiles from the Front Line (Thursdays, 8 p.m. E.T.), a surprisingly engrossing reality series that takes us along with a special-forces unit as it brings in an al-Qaeda suspect and aboard a smugglers' ship that the Navy has interdicted off Iraq. In the process, Profiles makes us realize that we have spent a year and a half fighting a war, with scant idea of what...
...exhibition, which runs until May 11, is a scrapbook of his career. Tucked amid white walls built of shoe boxes?the show was designed by his niece?are original sketches and magazine pages featuring his shoes, clothes by some of the designers with whom he has worked, a video clip of the mugging scene in Sex and the City and shoes?lots and lots of glorious shoes...