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...Square Root of Wonderful" has been labeled by critics as Carson McCullers' "failed play." When the show folded after only 45 performances, its failure sent McCullers on a downward spiral of depression and self-destruction from which she never recovered...
...alarm went off with Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring and has been sounding ever since. We live, environmentalists warn, in a world laced with dangerous chemicals, from powerful pesticides to toxic industrial wastes like dioxin and PCBs. Despite periodic waves of public concern and efforts at government regulation (the 1972 banning of DDT in the U.S., for example), the chemicals are still found in small but measurable amounts in air, water, soil -- and our own tissues. Many scientists have long argued that even tiny doses of pollutants can cause cancer in humans, but the contention is hotly disputed...
When people get up and start running around, that's good. We're on at 12:30 at night, so we want people to go [feigning waking] 'Hey what's going on? Look!' When they'd show Carson's 'best of' clips, it's always someone getting out of control or something happening unexpectedly. It isn't so much the prepared bits. What's more embarrassing is an interview where nothing interesting comes out. It's good when somebody walks out and their dress almost falls off [supermodel Tyra] or they bring out a farting machine [Leslie Nielsen]. That...
...They have famous friends. Guest voices on the show have included Bob Hope, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ringo Starr, Johnny Carson, Darryl Strawberry, Aerosmith, Bette Midler, Michael Jackson and Dustin Hoffman. "For some reason," says Groening, "a lot of Hollywood big shots are curious to see how they'd be drawn with bulging eyes and no chin...
...have benefited as professional Clinton haters are behind-the- scenes activist Floyd Brown and conservative celebrity Rush Limbaugh. Both profess not to hate Clinton. "We like the President," said Limbaugh's producer, Kit Carson. "We think he's probably a lot of fun to go out with after work -- have a few beers and chase women." Brown said he has no personal animosity toward Clinton and only "the greatest respect for his raw political instinct and capabilities." He explained that he and his associate David Bossie are merely "researchers...