Word: caste
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...funny as long as it's dirty. But in switching writer-directors, from the first film's Tom Shadyac to Steve Oedekerk, Carrey lost a clever farceur and got what Ace would call a la-hoo-za-her (loser). The star plays more than ever to himself; the cast stands around starched and embarrassed, like white-tie judges at a wet-T shirt contest. Wearying, stupefying, dumber than dumb, When Nature Calls would be a career ender for Carrey--except that a zillion people have seen it. Stop this, folks. It'll only encourage...
Turkel's 2,760 votes exceeded those cast for extremely popular Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72, the top vote getter in the city council race...
...call it next year or the year after, but it will be before the turn of the century. Because of Bouchard's magnetism, they just might finally win." In the election on October 30, the separatists lost by only 53,000 votes out of the nearly 4.7 million cast...
...first glance, the heroine-narrator of Susanna Moore's fourth novel, In the Cut (Knopf; 180 pages, $21), seems to fit perfectly into the polite cast of contemporary fiction. Frannie Thorstin, 34, lives on Washington Square in lower Manhattan, where the ghost of Henry James still whispers to the sensitive. She teaches creative writing in a city program for teenagers "of what is called low achievement and high intelligence." She is also writing a book on dialects and regional slang, particularly as they occur in the five boroughs of New York City. She notes, "The words themselves--in their...
DIED. EDDIE EGAN, 65, police officer/actor; of cancer; in Miami. As a New York City detective in 1962, Egan oversaw the famed "French Connection" heroin bust, which inspired the 1971 movie. In it Egan, portraying his boss, was cast opposite Gene Hackman, who won an Oscar for playing Egan. The real cop went on to play a platoon's worth of the Hollywood sort...