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BEST HOLLYWOOD CITIZEN Ron Howard has made millions for the industry, with films like Splash, Apollo 13 and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, but has never even been nominated for an Oscar. This year, with A Beautiful Mind, Opie finally gets some respect from the Academy: a Best Director nomination. Call it his Lifetime Achievement Award...
...Like teenagers trying to see how far they can get on a stolen credit card, Democrats then moved on to energy policy. House minority leader Dick Gephardt, gearing up for a presidential campaign, proposed a new "Apollo project" to make the U.S. energy-self-sufficient by 2010. Last week another White House hopeful, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, gave a similar speech, calling for Americans to produce 20% of electricity from renewable sources by 2020. Both proposals are designed to force the White House to side with energy producers and against average Americans. The White House said it is sticking...
...math prodigy who, after a ground-breaking discovery early in his career, developed a process known as game theory and won the Nobel Prize after years of battling with schizophrenia. With Mr. Hit-and-Miss Ron Howard directing, the craftsman of trash like Far and Away and gems like Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind has the potential to be an edgy, revealing biographical portrait. It also has the possibility of being uplifting, pretentious garbage. Only a Christmas Day outing will tell...
...October 11, Apollo 7 was launched and circles the Earth 163 times over 11 days. A week later at the Mexico City Olympics, U.S. athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos rasied their fists on the medal stand in a black power salute...
...October 11, Apollo 7 was launched and circles the Earth 163 times over 11 days. A week later at the Mexico City Olympics, U.S. athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos rasied their fists on the medal stand in a black power salute...