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...fans may be worried that she's missing out on conventional stardom, but Posey isn't. "I get a phone call, I get a script, I do the movie. That's where the fun is." And we'll have fun watching her bloom in indie films--if she can afford...
...have school by daily plebiscite with creationists and evolutionists, liberals and conservatives, condom givers and abstinence advocates, prayer sayers and secularists playing out their agendas. If parents aren't willing to go in the other direction and collectively trust teachers to teach and discipline, a thousand little Johnnies will bloom and destroy what remains of public education. Say goodbye to Mr. Chips and all that, and hello to 40 substitute teachers (parents) in every classroom...
CyberCoins could let thousands of such harebrained Web schemes bloom. Take Worbble, a multiplayer word game created by Headgames Inc. of Edmonton, Alberta, that is set to hit the Web next week. From five to 2,000 players at once will look for words hidden in a 3-by-3 grid; the first player to find each word will win $10 to $60. The entrance fee: one buck. The currency: CyberCoin. "The product fits our marketing strategy like a glove," says Headgames president Ray Speichert...
...these stereotypes (even feminist stereotypes), if only to prove the rules of its game: that films must be tailored to the appetites of young men; that women will go to male-oriented movies but men can't be dragged to women's pictures; that an actress's bloom as a box-office icon (Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster) can soon fade, while the appeal of male stars (Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman) stays solid for decades...
...Roth, though, Bloom sacrificed everything. Early in their relationship, for instance, the author told Bloom that he refused to share a home with Anna, and the girl, 18, was promptly kicked out. Then in 1993, Bloom writes, Roth spiraled into a severe, inexplicable depression. He was institutionalized and became deeply paranoid, accusing his wife of trying to poison him, dredging up misdeeds, real and imagined, and, in the end, divorcing her. With this sad memoir Bloom gets the last word--for now. But it is hard not to wonder what will happen when Roth turns his novelist...