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...pound. Inspired, he vows to win the next contest. The prize? A week in a dirty car trunk RESHMILA SHAKYA Four-year-old girl is named Nepal's virgin goddess?gets a third eye, a chariot and is revered by thousands. What, no decoder ring? Losers ROWAN ATKINSON Mr. Bean creator crashes his Aston Martin into a wall. Sits with a disconsolate expression wondering when Harrison Ford will show up BORIS BECKER Tennis maestro must pay child support after siring a child in a Japanese restaurant broom-closet with a model. What was in that sashimi? VLAD DRACUL PRINCE KRETZULESCO...
Since the arrival of cable television, Ms. Simpson said that the national networks were losing watchers fast, and “the bean-counters became involved.” The network programs are “now in the fight of their lives,” and because of that, they reach out to the viewers’ interests like health and aging while neglecting race...
...Prodigal Summer" by Barbara Kingsolver is described as wonderful and engrossing by its recommender. (If I may add to that, all of her books are great summer reads, especially "The Bean Trees" and "Pigs in Heaven...
...Lois Bean worries about the same thing. An eighth-grade teacher in the upscale Atlanta suburb of Lilburn, she says her problem students have one thing in common: detached parents. Bean's efforts to get their mothers and fathers to attend back-to-school night, help out with research papers or even return her phone calls are often in vain. Those same parents are usually no-shows even at the Little League games that her family frequents. "We end up giving the same kids, who live in beautiful homes, a ride home every night," she says. "These aren...
...sell advertising "up front," on the basis of what the networks annually promise will be the greatest season of public entertainment the world has known since the days of Aeschylus, and generally ends up with John Goodman playing a gay guy and trading insults with Orson Bean. Held in tony venues like Radio City Music Hall, the presentations involve elaborate stage presentations, comedy bits and star walk-ons - the aesthetic is somewhere between an awards show and an insurance dealers' regional sales meeting. They're followed by cocktail parties where the networks pimp out their celebs to mingle among laundry...