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...only thing you could see at the MIT beach back then was carp...
...clearly a dude ranch, not a working ranch," he says. "But it has everything my family wants--moonlight rides, beer drinking by the lake." For that kind of idyll, you can forgive a few problems. When Fatjo couldn't conquer the seaweed in a newly created lake, he tried carp, then chemicals, and finally filled it in with concrete. "People don't know what pain and heartache it was to get to this point," he says...
Margaret Edson's affecting, Pulitzer prize-winning play about an English professor dying of cancer has been adapted for TV with taste and resourcefulness by director Mike Nichols. The subject is so strong, and Emma Thompson's performance so moving, that it seems a shame to carp. But the TV movie, like the play, treads a predictable path, especially in its portrayal of the insensitive doctors. And the most courageous and startling moment in the stage version--the middle-aged protagonist disrobes in a burst of light at the very end--is inexplicably gone...
...priorities as Governor and Senator and makes no mention whatsoever of abortion. What do you make of a man who is caricatured as Cotton Mather but who is known among his friends for his gospel singing, piano playing, his love of dirt bikes and his ability to spear a carp on a 12-ft. pole? What do you make of a man who has in his barn a 7-ft. statue he crafted of the Statue of Liberty? He made it of barbed wire...
...first week tallies for Black and Blue just narrowly missed the 2.4 million record set by 'NSync in March... On a similar note, doctors have just decided that Oscar Wilde didn't die of syphilis, but actually of a complex ear infection. If you're in the mood to carp about your cell phone bill, demand a salary review or petition your credit card bill, this seems like the time to do it...Gladiator is being shown on IMAX screens in major cities across the country starting this week. Can there be too much of a good thing? The idea...