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...truth there is pain; in pain there is laughter. That might be Brooks' motto, in comedy and life. Brooklyn-born, New Jersey-bred, Jim was a lonely child whose father had left home. "In I'll Do Anything," says Platt, "I think he is unconsciously, or consciously, investigating what might have happened to him had his father not left, if he had not been raised by his mother and sister." After New York University, he worked for CBS as a newswriter, then in 1966 moved to Los Angeles to make TV documentaries. Three years later, he created the series Room...
Still, according to her coach Evy Scotvold, the nurturing and support Kerrigan receives has bred some immaturity and insecurity. "She's a very dependent person," he says. It was not until 1992 that Kerrigan moved out of her parents' wood-frame home in blue-collar Stoneham, Massachusetts. But last week, when Kerrigan wasn't doing her daily round of physical therapy and hydrotherapy sessions, she was home with her parents in Stoneham, with all the world camped outside. Asked at a snowy press conference what would make a happy ending to her story, Kerrigan made no mention of medals...
...Degrees" is the story of the wealthy and well-bred Kittredges, Ouisa (Stockard Channing) and Flan (Donald Sutherland), who are charmed by a young, Black con-artist (Will Smith) who bursts into their Upper East Side apartment claiming to be a friend of their college-age children and the son of Sidney Poitier. Paul (Smith) shatters the crystal palace of these New York sophisticates as he enters their lives unimpeded, proving how eager and willing they are to suspend disbelief in the hope of enlivening their rather cold and empty existences...
...First "good" cholesterol, now "good" fat. A type of body fat has been found that, paradoxically, protects against obesity. Mice bred to have a deficit of "brown fat" gain a great deal of weight very quickly when fed a normal diet. Researchers believe that the brown fat, which is also present in humans, triggers the burning of extra calories...
...popular comedies of 1992 come to market. Sister Act ($140 million at the North American box office), Wayne's World ($122 million) and Beethoven ($57 million) tickled audiences with humor that stretched all the way -- about a foot and a half -- from sitcoms to Saturday Night Live. The SNL-bred Wayne's World was agreeably hip, loose and clever, as befits smart guys acting goofy. But the other two films were hapless rehashes of working-girl and family themes done to death by the networks...