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...spring. For him, violence and comedy both hinge on unpredictability. That explains Beat's punching out a publisher whose magazine had been tailing his girlfriend. For that 1986 dustup Beat was handed a two-year suspended sentence for assault. "Violence is necessary and unexpected," he says, rubbing his right cheek as though checking an old bruise. "There is nothing more violent than a gunshot entering an unsuspecting family and killing the father." Comedy, too, he says, is violent. "The essence of comedy is to say things that are totally unexpected and sudden under the given circumstances. I adapted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beat Goes On | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...hissing cap of serpents, he says, wasn't easy. "When she first saw the snakes, she cried and cried," Fay Sam Ang says. "But I told her she had to be professional. In the end, it was no problem. The snakes would just give her little kisses on the cheek." He's hoping audiences will be as affectionate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medusa on the Mekong | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

Barrymore did not disappoint. She wrapped her leg around each actor and kissed him on the cheek...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hasty Pudding Roasts Drew Barrymore | 2/9/2001 | See Source »

...with a greenish light under the right illumination. Mice, rabbits and other creatures who have had the same gene inserted actually do shine dimly; while ANDi (his name is a backward acronym for "inserted DNA") does not, the scientists have detected traces of the gene in his muscle, hair, cheek and blood cells. The researchers suspect that the gene may not be expressing its protein--or at least not at detectable levels--and may turn on fully only as ANDi ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monkey Business | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

Ritchie, like the woman he calls "the missus," doesn't always play by the rules. At 15 he left school, then eschewed his upper-middle class for a life of globe trotting and barhopping. Along the way he acquired the long knife scar on his left cheek. Last summer he got into a scrape with a male fan because "our house got sieged," he says. "One day I couldn't even drive my car out of the house, so I got out and kicked someone. We haven't had a fan since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Madonna's Guy | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

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