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Actors can be so finicky about their wardrobe. Take Steven Seagal, who had a problem with the idea of wearing cement shoes. Reports of Seagal's troubles with associates of the Gambino Mafia clan surfaced several weeks ago when his pal and former producer, Julius Nasso, was indicted on extortion charges. Last week more details emerged. According to court papers, Nasso allegedly led efforts beginning in 2000 to extort $150,000 from Seagal for each movie he made. The actor claims he was so unnerved that he paid $700,000 before the FBI stepped in. The only bright spot...
...Despite Washington?s efforts to rekindle some form of peace process, Ariel Sharon appears determined to rid himself of Yasser Arafat and cement his own hold over the West Bank. The Israeli prime minister told the New York Times that he may consider letting Arafat leave his Ramallah office and go to Gaza, saying "with Arafat, no one will be able to make peace." But right now Arafat isn?t looking for a new address, and Palestinian leaders scoffed at the suggestion - after all, Sharon himself is as much a prisoner of the current standoff in Ramallah as Arafat...
...steer transfer-seeking players toward his son Jason's soccer agency seems a relatively mild strain of nepotism for the modern game. And news that Ferguson tried to cobble together a consortium to buy the club to stave off a bid by Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB will likely cement him more strongly still in the hearts of the estimated 50 million Manchester United fans worldwide who are this book's natural readership. For the rest of us, a 600-page biography, complete with footnotes, appendices and an index, suggests the complex life of a statesman spent in deep intrigue...
...trust the U.S. Senate will quickly ratify the treaty; the Russian parliament should do the same. Those will be the final steps needed to cement this momentous arms control victory...
...first black to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar ("Carmen Jones," 1955); Belafonte was and is the cool, sexy actor-singer with a half-century's radiance. But Micheaux? Considering his instructively bizarre, virtually anonymous career, no one would have expected Micheaux to achieve this celebrity in cement. No one but Micheaux himself...