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...faithful in each city work their own variations on a standard text. As the ruby lips in the film's opening credits give way to a wedding attended by normal, nerdy young Americans Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon), the audience in Coconut Grove, Fla., flings rice gaily in the air. When the young lovers get stranded in the rain, regulars in Denver douse the front rows with squirt bottles. When Brad and Janet see "a light over at the Frankenstein place," hundreds of lighters, flashlights and one small '50s table lamp illuminate the Eighth Street Playhouse...
...government still allows the Burmese army to kill and drive people out of their villages with complete impunity." BRAD ADAMS, director of Human Rights Watch Asia, which last week released a report documenting ongoing abuses against ethnic minorities by Burma's military junta, including extrajudicial killings, rape and forced relocation...
...found allies in the marketplace. Mark Zupan, one of the "stars" of Murderball, will be part of Reebok's "I Am What I Am" campaign. And at the Cinemark multiplex in Long Beach, Calif., a 6-ft. cutout display of Rize rubs cardboard shoulders with a life-size Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie...
...Alexander Waske, ranked 147th in the world, at the grass-court tune-up in Halle. Still, a Wimbledon win is one of Nadal's goals. "If he can get past the first week and some hot weather helps harden the surface, he has a chance," says tennis coach Brad Gilbert. "Nothing this kid does surprises me." --With reporting by Bruce Crumley/ Paris, Kristina Dell/ New York, Andrea Gerlin/ Halle and Jane Walker/ Madrid
...wildly eclectic mix of participants on the panel, convened at the annual publishing industry tradeshow Book Expo America, included indie creators Adrian Tomine (Optic Nerve) and Charles Burns (Black Hole) with superhero/pulp auteur Frank Miller (Sin City) and novelist-turned-superhero-comics writer Brad Meltzer (Identity Crisis), who sat next to comic autobiographer and movie celebrity Harvey Pekar (American Splendor.) Thanks to Pekar's irrepressible personality, things got a little warm when he denounced superhero books as "escapist" and worthless when there were more important things to spend your energy on like "getting Bush out of office." Meltzer later gave...