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...vocation: he will become THE HAIRDRESSER'S HUSBAND. Decades later, in another barber chair, Antoine (Jean Rochefort) meets Mathilde (Anna Galiena), "the woman with whom I knew I'd spend my life." Mathilde knows it too; in his Basset eyes she sees erotic ingenuity and unconditional love. Both are avid for the moment the shop door closes "so we can drown in the ocean of peace we love so much." French director Patrice Leconte, whose fine Monsieur Hire also dealt with romantic obsession, has devised a chamber fable about a man's infantile charm and a woman's nurturing sexuality...
...several intimates and friends with Morton's project. This is virtually unheard of. Anyone with a real royal connection never speaks to reporters, simply because doing so means instant and permanent ostracism at court. But Diana's late father Earl Spencer, always appealingly proud of his little girl and avid for personal attention, contributed dozens of unpublished pictures. Her brother and a sister apparently spoke to Morton, as did an ex- roommate, Carolyn Bartholomew, and a couple of her buddies. Buckingham Palace at once snapped that the princess in no way cooperated with the book...
...irony for Amy Fisher's schoolmates and neighbors, as they feel themselves victims of media marauders, is that many have surely been avid consumers of the tabloid journalism they are now deploring. Then, of course, the subjects of the story were safely distant, and embarrassed friends and associates not even thought of. In those easier times, this sort of story seemed to them juicy. They are learning that the juices in such stories are most often squeezed out of other people's lives...
...suspicious symptoms of the rescue workers have been hotly debated in Canada. A Health and Welfare department study attributed the illnesses to "mass hysteria," "post-traumatic syndrome" and "eating too much moose meat," since many of the men were avid hunters. But M.P. George Baker claims that the investigating physicians took no blood samples or X rays, attempting merely to compile what he called a "theoretical study." He also asserts that two of the three doctors refused to sign the final report. The threat of radiation poisoning may explain why General Crosby wanted to bulldoze over the wreckage so quickly...
Already, former college stars are sprinkled throughout the league. Avid football fans will recognize college stars like Barcelona's Tony Rice (Notre Dame), Orlando's Kerwin Bell (Florida), San Antonio's Tony Boles (Michigan) and London's Judd Garrett--who ran roughshod over Harvard during his Princeton career...