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...into the '90s. Dunne invents a child star named Blue Tyler (born Melba Mae Toolate, or perhaps not, because her birth mother is supposed to have sold her as an infant to a Mrs. Toolate for the price of a bus ticket out of -- maybe -- Yuma, Arizona). Blue isn't cute like Shirley Temple (that "midget in drag," as one of Dunne's wise-guy industry types calls Blue's competition). Rather, she conveys adult sexuality to an unsettling degree, in part because a botched tonsillectomy (by the studio doctor who will one day perform her abortions) gives her Marlene...
...clouds believed to consist of ammonium hydrosulfide, a sulfur compound. Since no water seems to have been stirred up, the explosions probably took place in the presumed sulfide layer. If researchers confirm that the sulfur rose up from Jupiter, it will be "a major discovery," says University of Arizona astronomer Roger Yelle. "We've always believed that much of the color in Jupiter's clouds comes from sulfur compounds, but we've never detected them...
...director of the CIA, R. James Woolsey must deal with a daunting array of sworn enemies: Russian spies, Libyan operatives, North Korean agents, Dennis DeConcini . . . Wait, Dennis DeConcini, the Democratic Senator from Arizona? Listen to what he says and judge for yourself. "We have had a very obstinate director of the CIA who has hurt the agency," says DeConcini, who is the chairman of the Senate's Intelligence Committee. "He is not doing the Administration any good whatsoever and to me is a disaster...
Charlie Lang is not a stretch for Nicholas Case. Lang is the distillation of many of Cage's former character roles, most notably "Raising Arizona" and "Red Rock West." Here Cage is the pure from of goodness, sincerity and generosity, attributes which were present, but hidden under the tough-guy persons of his other roles...
...Franklin and Eleanor's offspring might have become first-class boors even without famous parents. Elliott wanted to be a "big man" and ended as a hard-drinking Rotarian in Arizona. Franklin Jr. drank copiously, served in Congress and was a distributor of Fiat cars. Anna Roosevelt feuded bitterly with her mother; her husband deserted her and killed himself. Collier catalogs these events in a plodding, too decorous way, but his problem is basic: with the exception of Eleanor and the two great Presidents, these Roosevelts were an uninspired group who, in the end, weren't much of a dynasty...