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...this week when director JOHN FRANKENHEIMER said he is not the biological father of Pearl Harbor director MICHAEL BAY. There is, however, something behind the tale. Bay was adopted in 1965, and Frankenheimer told the Los Angeles Times that he indeed had a one-night stand with Bay's birth mother in the early '60s. A few years later, when she threatened to name him as the father of her child, Frankenheimer paid the woman $7,500 to keep quiet. (Hollywood was a little different back then.) A few years ago, Frankenheimer consented to a paternity test that, he says...
...industry will leave more casual comix readers a bit confused, particularly if they live outside the U.K. But the parts of the book you could call "criticism," including a history of the graphic novel, are refreshingly opinionated. In between Campbell includes personal anecdotes of things both vastly important (marriage, birth) or utterly trivial, but memorable for their own sake (watermelon-sized holes in the curtains). Ultimately it reads with the voice of a friend sitting at the bar after his fifth pint, though admittedly this has its rambling downside as well...
...every day had meant touching or breathing mercury: it is used to bind with, then separate the tiny bits of gold from the stone; then it has to be burned off to isolate the precious metal. When the baby finally arrived, the doctor waited until an hour after the birth before telling Femmy what had happened. Her son's intestines were outside of his body. And he had no fingers. It was probably the mercury that did it, the doctor said. Her baby was the first victim, but there would be more. Within four days her son had died...
...will look upon the birth of my child, my marriage and my Nieman fellowship as the watershed events of my life,” Brelis said...
PILL OR PATCH? Mention birth control, and most people think of the Pill. Well, soon there may be an even easier way to prevent pregnancies. The world's first contraceptive skin patch--still a year away from FDA approval--may be just as effective as the birth-control pill in preventing pregnancies, say researchers. The patch is changed once a week, so women don't have to remember to pop a pill every day. And unlike another Pill alternative--Depo-Provera injections, which last three months--the effect can be reversed simply by taking the patch...