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...this left the Democratic field fractured, with no heavyweight to take on Schwarzenegger. Sensing a disaster, such influential figures as former Governor Jerry Brown and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown took to the cable news shows to suggest that Davis should step aside and beg Feinstein to run in his place. Meanwhile, panic-stricken union officials, who had pledged to stand with Davis, started putting out the word privately that he should not count on the $10 million in assistance he has asked from them...
...talk about it. Does he really have a bad back that limits his ability to do stunts? Yes, but it's feeling fine these days, thanks. Did Columbia Pictures try to replace him in Spider-Man II with rival boy-man Jake Gyllenhaal? And did he have to beg his way back into the Spidey suit, with the help of the aforementioned well-connected girlfriend? No comment beyond "And here we are." Plus a zap with the lasers to say, Move...
...inhabit a new lifestyle if you have to do it in that dumpy old body? Extreme Makeover, the only one of ABC's late-season blitz of reality shows to make fall's prime-time schedule, has petitioners beg, Queen for a Day style, to win packages of plastic surgery, cosmetic dentistry and sundry other injections and deletions. It's not surprising that Extreme is crass, but it is also maudlin. (As is TLC's plastic-surgery show, A Personal Story. In its credits, words float across the screen: LIPOSUCTION ... SELF-ESTEEM ... BREAST AUGMENTATION ... DIGNITY ... RHINOPLASTY.) A stay-at-home...
Still, Baker is encouraged by the enthusiasm evident in the stands at AFL games around the country, where his hefty figure is a familiar sight. Fans greet him like a rock star and beg for autographs and high fives. He knows many season-ticket holders and their kids by name. "I'm lucky," he says as he signs a program. "Paul Tagliabue doesn't get to do this...
Demonstrators listened to a speech by Themba Vilakazi, an exiled member of the African National Congress, who told the assembled crowd, “the African people have decided not to beg anymore, but to fight...