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...couple of movie-mad kids from Queens, New York. Their parents, Bob recalls, "used the local theater as a baby-sitter. They'd drop us off at a triple feature and pick us up six hours later." (The boys must be grateful for the benign neglect of Miriam and Max Weinstein; the company is named after them.) After a stint as rock-concert promoters in Buffalo, New York, Harvey and Bob got into film distribution, making their rep with the 1989 hits sex, lies, and videotape and My Left Foot. Often they saw themselves as custom tailors, trimming foreign films...
...been through two hips, seven husbands and countless dress sizes, so ELIZABETH TAYLOR isn't about to be stopped by a benign brain tumor. Taylor's condition was diagnosed after a checkup last week, but she has postponed surgery until the day after the celebrations for her 65th birthday on Feb. 16. It's not just that she loves a good party. The event is a fund raiser for her longtime cause, AIDS research. Before the diagnosis, Barbara Walters bagged an interview for 20/20 and learned that Liz also plans to be present at the birth of Michael Jackson...
...probability, this sort of relatively benign factionalism will be around for quite some time; no matter how peaceful and unified the country seems, there will always be amusing secession movements in Vermont and Texas and the militia party will always hold a respectable minority of the congressional seats in Montana...
Whether biting or benign, what these supposedly trenchant comebacks have in common is the roar of a phantom crowd; they always speak of other people having spoken them. It's as if they come with a built-in laugh track. And keeping us on track, they provoke in us click responses, the sort of electronic-entertainment reaction we twitch and jerk to more often lately. We hear Not even close, He's history or What's wrong with this picture?, and we immediately sense the power structure of the moment. In fact, we may subconsciously applaud such speakers because they...
...signing the National Cancer Act. Amidst the publicity for the anniversary of the Act last week, there appeared articles in Time, Scientific American and other journals all proclaiming setbacks as well as significant strides forward, most notably the decline in the overall cancer death rate. However, in an otherwise benign piece from November 25 ("Cancer: The Good News"), Time reported that "the bad news is that all those billions spent on research in basic science may have had little to do with [the decline in cancer deaths]. Doctors have still not found a magic bullet against cancer...