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From the rear seat, his 14-year-old brother chimed in. "You know, Andrew, that these people are totally crazy, right?" And from the front seat, my aunt made a disapproving sound and suggested that we "read something more cheery." But before I could turn to the sports pages, Andrew had posed a question society at large has been too self-confident to consider: "What if they are right?" came his innocent voice...
When they were young lads growing up in Toronto, MIKE MYERS and his brother were sent Beatles suits by an aunt in Liverpool, whence his parents had emigrated. Thus, perhaps, was Myers' deep-seated anglophilia born. His newest creation, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, is clearly from a place far, far away from Wayne's World. He's a swinging '60s English fashion photographer by day and secret agent by night, who has himself frozen, as does his nemesis, Dr. Evil, also played by Myers. When Evil returns in 1997, so must Powers, along with his 1967 sexual mores...
...group composed its own song after stopping in Washington DC to visit Walsh's Aunt Nan, who was not home. Sitting on the curb outside Aunt Nan's house, the group wrote a fictional country-western song whose lyrics included, "There's shit in my peanut butter." A debate over whether to use a knife or spoon to spread the peanut butter on the peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches they were eating (courtesy of HDS) inspired the group's songwriting effort. "At that point, we had not been sleeping a lot," Philipp said...
...Michigan. In between decorating the Christmas tree and ogling the Hollywood celebrities in town, she is trying to get a date for the big event of the Jewish social year, known as Ballyhoo. Reacting in various ways to her travails are her widowed mother; the unmarried uncle and widowed aunt who live with them; and her prettier, more socially assured cousin, home from Wellesley...
...great-great-great aunt by the name of Bradbury was found guilty [of witchcraft], but was spared," says Burns. "She would have been Witch No. 20, but for some reason, she was spared the gallows or stoning...