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...auto market, but the real benefits will come when exports increase. American automakers need to learn one more lesson from the Japanese: how to build from the ground up a car tailored to the needs of the world's other great markets and bring home the bacon...
...close-up of a naked woman drowned in a bathtub), “Where the Truth Lies” plants itself firmly in the venerable shady-side-of-showbiz genre. This particularly sordid little tale centers on the Martin-and-Lewis-esque 1950s musical/comedy duo of Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) and Vince Collins (Colin Firth, distancing himself from his “Bridget Jones’s Diary” nice-guy image), who perform a yearly telethon to benefit polio victims. Behind the scenes, they indulge in plenty of sex, drugs, fights, and mob connections.The dead girl who opens...
...Gourmet magazine. But she's also a mom committed to regular family meals. In this book she streamlines the process of getting dinner on the table quickly and without sacrificing flavor. Most can be whipped up in less than 45 minutes. She offers breakfast for dinner (a superior egg, bacon and cheddar biscuit sandwich), innovative hearty soups (cauliflower chorizo) and fancier options like pepper-crusted steak with blue cheese sauce...
DIED. EDMUND BACON, 95, irascible urban planner (and father of actor Kevin Bacon) whose revitalization of Philadelphia landed him in 1964 on the cover of TIME, which lauded his work as the "most skillfully coordinated of all big-city programs in the U.S."; in Philadelphia. Among his contributions: the conception of Penn Center, a collection of high-rises, shops and restaurants credited with sparking the city's rebirth. Bacon's 1967 book, Design of Cities, remains a staple of many architecture classes...
...edgiest articles in the anthology is a 1999 essay by assistant managing editor David Skinner arguing for the importance of male chest hair. Observing that a long list of male Hollywood stars, including Kevin Bacon, Tom Cruise, and even Al Pacino, have appeared with shaven chests in recent films, Skinner writes: “The newly prominent hairless man is a sign of the convergence of gay and straight culture.” He concludes with a rhetorical question: “Where can one find reflections of manliness, if everywhere you turn, the American male seems boyish, hairless, shorn...