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...another, a lime daiquiri; and a third can't quite make up its mind (the siding is pumpkin orange, the trim is bright fuchsia, and the door is turquoise). And then there are the shops. A red-and-tangerine party-supply store looks like a circus tent, and an auto-parts dealer is full-body lavender...
...grandson's kidnappers! A lost relic with aphrodisiacal powers--Jesus' foreskin--turns up in Manhattan! "Pringles financed my movie," a commercial actor turned documentarian told me. The budget for one "romantic drama" came from the insurance settlement the writer-director received after he was injured in an auto accident. You had to admire the sheer nerve on display. And who knows? Maybe I was talking to the next Todd Solondz (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness) or Edward Burns (The Brothers McMullen), both of whom got their start at the IFFM. But probably I wasn...
...considerably depending on the model. A Glock will run you $525, a Colt rifles $450, and you can pick up a nice Luger for $325. If you've got a trenchcoat, you needn't go for the pistol: you can get a sawed-off shotgun for $199. If semi-auto seems weak to you, fully automatic spray machine guns can be rented for $20 per halfhour. Any handgun can be used in the range, including the fearsome .44 Magnum full metal jacket...
Like many little boys in the tricycle years, Mike Terry of Evanston, Ill., loved things that go vroom. Cars in particular. But as he grew older, his fascination didn't fade; it just shifted into higher gear. At age 9, he had a transcendent experience: the Chicago Auto Show, 10 hours of "heaven on earth." From that day on, recalled Mike, now 13, in a seventh-grade paper, "the auto show has been named a 'religious holiday' in the Terry family...
What's the latest in bipedal transportation? How about relatively affordable ($500 or less) "comfort bikes" with cushy seats, fat tires and--get this--automatic gears. At the Interbike show in Las Vegas this week, Shimano will demonstrate its new Auto-D electronic-shifting system on bikes from Bianci, Schwinn, GT and others. The digital derailleur always starts off in the lowest gear and automatically shifts when a rider pedals faster or slower. It even has a parking-mode feature that locks the wheels until you enter a secret code to release them...