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...response to the pleas of consumers and chefs who demand more flavor from their fruit, the Delicious is being slowly replaced by newer varieties of apples--such as the Braeburn, Pink Lady and Cameo--that not only look pretty but also taste good. Says Anna Maenner, executive director of the Wisconsin Apple Growers Association: "Every couple of years, there's a new variety that's coming...
...number of people blamed him for provoking his would-be killers. When the death sentence was lifted after nine years, he found himself courted by statesmen, entertainers and smart hostesses. Readers who didn't know from Indian magical realism started buying his energetic novels. Did you catch his movie cameo in Bridget Jones's Diary ? The hard-partying novelist turns out to be a thoughtful and feisty essayist, if a bit of a name-dropper. There's too much "my friend Alan Yentob" and "I recently asked Vaclav Havel" in these articles, letters and speeches. And some shouldn...
...sincere. He's not trying to be postironic ironic. I got this feeling that this was a very human effort and not an effort to be cool," she says. "You feel like, 'What a nice young man.'" Now the only thing she's upset about is that her cameo was cut. He's good, very good...
...halftime show, wielding a whooping stick that he unleashed on an effigy of Yale’s mascot, Handsome Dan. The comedic show of school spirit was enough to spare him the wrath of the student section—well, that and the fact that Lewis’ cameo went largely undetected by the punch-drunk masses who had found other ways to get their buzz...
When Fleming banged out the first book in 1952 and dubbed its hero Bond--the "dull and anonymous name," as he put it, of the author of Birds of the West Indies (look out for the book's cameo)--he had no idea what his character would become. The market today is more crowded than ever, but Bond's makers even look at the competition with pride. "XXX, Austin Powers, even The Bourne Identity are all homages to Bond," says MGM vice chairman Chris McGurk. "All these movies do is reinforce the significance of Bond as the most original...