Word: birthdays
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Since this is the week of our 223rd national birthday, celebration is called for, and I'd like to celebrate...us. It's fun to catalog the lovable stuff about Americans, especially since we have no shortage of public scolds telling us our morals have gone to hell, our families are falling apart, our kids are spoiled rotten, our government can't do anything right, and we are, in short, the sorriest bunch of decadents since the palmy days of the late Roman Empire...
...with the E Street Band in more than a decade proves that the powerful bond Springsteen has forged with his fans during the past quarter-century has only intensified. He has no record in the Top 30, and his biggest hit, Born in the U.S.A., is approaching its 15th birthday. Yet when tickets went on sale for the 15 shows that begin next week at New Jersey's Continental Arena, fans snapped up the 300,000 seats in just 13 hours...
White's 100th birthday comes this July 11, and to mark the occasion I recently made my long-postponed visit. White wasn't around to enjoy it, of course, having died in October 1985. But the farmhouse is still there, resting on a rise above Blue Hill Bay, and the barn is still attached to it, Maine fashion, and down at the water's edge is the little boathouse where White wrote his children's stories Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, along with the many essays that have entered the canon of American literature: "Once More to the Lake...
...Happy Birthday, Papa...
...worried that Cruise and Kidman would put on movie-star airs. But the three of them--the supposedly phobic recluse and his two glamorous stars--became extraordinarily close during the making of Eyes Wide Shut. Though both stars had full shooting schedules in Sydney this month and at-home birthday bashes (she just turned 32, he will be 37 this week), they were eager to talk about Kubrick with TIME. "We're so proud of the movie, but we have this strange feeling about its success," says Kidman. "Stanley was always around. And now he's gone...