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...backbone for director Barry Levinson’s movie “What Just Happened?” yet the stories fall short of entertaining once translated to the screen. “What Just Happened?” chronicles two weeks in the life of Hollywood producer Ben (Robert De Niro) as he deals with his two ex-wives, three children, the post-production of what is sure to be an audience-offending flop, and an obstinate Bruce Willis (as a parody of himself) who refuses to shave his revolting, overgrown beard for an upcoming movie. As if having...
...clothes are the thing. Kingsmill assembled a design team headed by Elisha Guilfoyle, fresh from a stint in Ohio at Abercrombie & Fitch, and Ben Noble, previously of Quiksilver. There'll be a sharper difference between the men's and women's ranges. Kingsmill is betting that women aren't so interested in jokes and slogans but will embrace a range that celebrates what he calls the "quintessential Australian beach babe," to be embodied by Sydney model Cheyenne Tozzi. Mambo will stay in department stores but also return to surf chains. If all goes well, says Kingsmill, its nine outlets...
...depression was for government to become the spender of last resort. It's certainly acting like that now--the U.S. federal budget deficit may top $1 trillion in the current fiscal year, and everybody in Washington seems to be looking for ways to make it bigger. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke backs more fiscal stimulus, and President Bush is on board too. Democratic congressional leaders are thrilled by the prospect. Even the Concord Coalition, founded to battle the big deficits of the early 1990s, doesn't object...
PETA recently tried to advocate for the use of human breast milk rather than cow's milk in Ben & Jerry's ice cream. That doesn't seem very feasible. Erika Kohl, WESTFORD, MASS...
...very feasible at all, but it was great fun to suggest it to Ben & Jerry's, who also knew it was a joke. What was serious was that television stations listened to our reasons why making anything out of cow's milk is unkind. Calves are taken away from their mothers and used for veal. We drink the milk meant for those little calves...