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...Independence Day), “When I die, don’t tell anyone. Just bury me in the backyard, and tell them I left you!” In Kingdom Come, such funny one-liners are often followed by even more amusing scenes. In one particularly memorable moment, Aunt Marguerite and her son Royce are traveling in a beat-up Volkswagen beetle on their way to Mama Slocumb’s (Whoopi Goldberg) house when they run out of gas. While waiting for Ray Bud to rescue them, they begin to listen to music. In accordance with his gangsta...

Author: By Rebecca Cantu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Kingdom Comes' and Laughter Follows | 4/13/2001 | See Source »

...says Nampeo McKenney, who retired from the Census Bureau after a 40-year career that culminated in overseeing the CATA model. She means this in a global sense; I find it personally true from moment to moment. I can't stand the smell of chitterlings, but neither can my Aunt Ruthie, who won't allow them within a mile of her kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Am What I Say I Am | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...there that Williams met and befriended Josh Stevens, who lives there with his mother Karen and her boyfriend Chris Reynolds, 29. Williams and Stevens soon became inseparable, with Stevens always in the lead. "Andy was a follower," says Dawn Hemming, 32, a hairdresser who is the aunt of one of Williams' close friends. "Josh could manipulate Andy because Andy wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warning: | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...There's cousin Meyer, who fled to America to escape the Cossacks, lost his entire family when the Nazis occupied his hometown in Ukraine, raised another family in the U.S. but was so saddened by America's role in Vietnam that he killed himself at 87. And there's Aunt Lily, the clan's career woman, who sold lingerie door to door and married a bookish man, suspect in the family because he "seemed to have no politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unsentimental Journey | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...filling the two largest theaters in New York to capacity - the Roxy and Radio City Music Hall, with 10,000 seats between them - for 10 shows daily. In L.A. it broke box-office records at Sid Graumann's Chinese (where 13-year-old Ray Harryhausen saw it with his aunt). It was a hit in five rereleases as well, especially in 1952, when it helped to inspire the radiation-monster cycle that began a year later with "Beast From 20,000 Fathoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monkey On My Back | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

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