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...remember really well going in and auditioning for Ordinary People, and not getting it," KEVIN BACON says. "I didn't even get past the casting director." He obviously bears no grudge toward the guy who later won an Oscar in the role he sought, because he's starring in TIM HUTTON's feature directorial debut, Digging to China. "Being my first time," says Hutton, "it was great working with an actor who had just directed." (Bacon directed Losing Chase in 1996.) In China, Bacon plays a mentally disabled man who forms an odd friendship with a girl played by EVAN...
...house special will be a Flam-mekueche--a thin pastry dough covered with fromage blanc and topped with items like onion, bacon and mushrooms. They will range in price from...
...caloric restriction in rodents, is conducting similar experiments with primates. Even if they succeed, however, trying to apply the treatment to humans could prove dicey. In a nation of consumers for whom caloric belt tightening can mean little more than a smaller serving of French fries with their bacon cheeseburgers, the belief that people would be willing to reduce what they eat by a full third is probably unrealistic...
Last week Michael Moore, director of "Roger & Me" and "Canadian Bacon," and the main man of "TV Nation," stopped by the Brattle Theater as part of his nationwide publicity tour for his new book, Downsize This! Through inventive satire, Moore's work consistently emphasizes the plight of a working class endangered by the trend of downsizing in the marketplace, relentlessly targeting politicians on both sides of the fence...
...limits, and thus expose the ridiculousness of their thinking. Speaking of right-to-life activists, he noted that if a fetus was a human being, it might as well get a Social Security number, everyone should add nine months to their age, and abortion should warrant capital punishment. "Canadian Bacon," which mocks the American people's willingness to follow President Bush into the Gulf War, presents us with an American president who arbitrarily decides that Canada will be the U.S.'s new enemy, and accordingly declares...