Word: caste
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...cast of O, the beautifully buoyant Cirque du Soleil water extravaganza at the Bellagio, wore circus motley: urchin's togs, ballerina gowns, penguin suits and the odd clown nose. Last week's opening-night audience, though, was outfitted in formal evening wear--1,800 exponents of money and glamour. It was just the sort of crowd Steve Wynn would like to see at his new hotel every night. So would the other high-rolling master builders in this high-desert fantasyland. Like an aging chorine who learns a little French and buys a Chanel frock in hopes of attracting...
...real bodies so they try to switch into the bodies of two Noxzema models by obtaining a magic medallion buried along with Chucky's human corpse (not that this matters much to the movie or makes much sense). The teens that fall into this trap are completely immemorable, cast as they were by looks...
Chucky's girl (pre-Barbie-izing) is played by the breasts of the breathtakingly talentless and Academy-Award-nominated Jennifer Tilly. Whoever made the decision to cast the most annoying voice in movies in a mostly vocal role ought to be subject to Ms. Tilly's audio-book recording of the Complete Oxford English Dictionary...
Most interesting, perhaps, is the "people's choice" list on the Modern Library's Web site. Random House has been allowing those who pass by its Web site to cast their own votes for the 100 best, and the results are quite bizarre. Though John Q. Internet has kept The Great Gatsby and The Sound and the Fury in the top 50, he's also added Starship Troopers and several works by Stephen King. Four works in the top ten are by Ayn Rand. Number one, Atlas Shrugged, has received many more votes than the first non-Rand entry, Battlefield...
...unlikely to make unpopular decisions for a deal he doesn't believe Netanyahu will keep anyway." Arafat's reported illness and the expiry of Clinton and Netanyahu's terms in 2000, says Beyer, mean that "final-status peace arrangements will, by definition, be left to a new cast of characters...