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...dopers and slacker documentarians, the weepie men and baby mamas, the caveman hunters and Boleyn sisters, the chronically unmarried or uncomfortably pregnant or serial-killer imperiled women - you'll hardly be seeing any women at all in star roles. Even Judd Apatow and his goofball satyrs are taking a break. (The reigning producer of R-rated comedy has two movies opening toward the shank of the summer.) Fallible, ordinarily engaging, human-size, earthbound characters just don't measure up when the weather turns warmer. We need another hero, and lots of 'em, the bigger, stronger and cartoonier the better...
...prove deadly: subjects can continue holding their breath up to the point that their brains shut down from lack of oxygen. If you're 100 feet under water - or even three feet underwater in a pool - it's not a good time to pass out. In order to break the world record, Blaine had to hold his breath without fainting. (Had he continued until he'd depleted his brain's oxygen, however, Potkin is convinced he could have gone for another full minute...
...married Kenneth Gambone——now a 40-year-old electrician and the love of her life, Mallory said.When Mailer died last November, Mallory said she felt both sadness and relief. Though they had not been in regular contact since the break-up, Mallory said she still felt the subtle control of a “very powerful man in publishing.”“He had told me that if I tried to write about him, he’d haunt me from his grave,” Mallory said...
...Poster-Remover waddles over to the poster boards, a large trash bag billowing in his hand. At this sight, directions are shouted overhead and teams disperse. Some begin with a brisk but restrained stroll, but sensing others gaining speed, break into...
...AIDS conspiracy, he is telling them that white power is so overwhelming that it's almost impossible to succeed. The success of Obama's candidacy sends the very opposite message, which may be why Wright is so threatened by it. If Obama wins the presidency-if we can break past the barrier of race-there won't be much of a market for oppression-thumping orators like Jeremiah Wright...