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...Hollywood will keep trying to lure families with kid-oriented films. When pictures like Babe and Home Alone work, they can be wildly profitable. Fox executive Tom Sherak points out that only two of the 20 top-grossing movies of all time were R-rated. Often children's pictures are cheaper than other films, and they have the potential to generate huge sales in home video and merchandise. "You keep mining that category of films," Sherak says. "When you hit, you're going to hit really big." And it gives politicians a chance to go to the movies...
AEON FLUX MTV's buff babe makes Esquire list: "Women We Love Even Though They Can Kick...
...greatest champion in Olympic history won no medals. Baron Pierre de Coubertin wasn't even much of an athlete. But were it not for the diminutive French nobleman, we might not know the names of Jim Thorpe, Babe Didrikson, Jesse Owens, Wilma Rudolph, Mark Spitz, Nadia Comaneci, Jackie Joyner-Kersee...
...Everyone talks about it, but folk singer Ani DiFranco walks it. A native of Buffalo, New York, who now lives in New York City's East Village, she is only 25 years old but has already managed to found her own record company (the not altogether ironically titled Righteous Babe Records), to release eight solo records (with total sales of more than 300,000) and, over the course of six years or so, to resist the entreaties of all the major-label suits who have sent letters, faxes and E-mail her way in their efforts to sign her. DiFranco...
...ancestral homes of the Tigers, Red Sox and Yankees tell much different stories, of Ty Cobb and Ted Williams and Babe Ruth. These parks, and safe-for-now Wrigley Field, are baseball's Libraries of Alexandria, the repositories for its greatest treasures. The memories, which distinguish baseball from every other American sport, are the reasons we can't give up the game even after it abandons...