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Mike Fackelmann had no reason to think he had heart disease. Although his cholesterol was a touch on the high side, he had never experienced any chest pains and had just passed a stress test with flying colors. So last November, when a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Hospital asked the then 49-year-old registered nurse to help demonstrate an experimental new cardiac scanner, neither the physician nor Fackelmann expected to see anything out of the ordinary. The idea was simply to slide Fackelmann through the machine and show what finely detailed images of the heart it could...
...book, The City of Falling Angels (Penguin Press; 414 pages), due out in September, Berendt's subject is the death not of a human being but of a building: Gran Teatro La Fenice, Venice's 200-year-old gilded treasure chest of an opera house, which burned to the ground in 1996. Was it an accident or arson...
STEVE CARELL plays a chaste, action-figure-collecting neat freak in The 40 Year-Old Virgin. Sacrificing his chest hair for one scene, the ex-Daily Show staff member is cinema's new darling...
...Virgin” pushes the limits of reality, but the humor grows from credible origins. When Andy gets his chest waxed—one of the popular preview scenes—Carell goes the extra mile by actually having his own chest waxed. From the redness on his chest to his screams of pain, not to mention the sympathetic looks combined with laughter of the other men, we are seeing a true (that is to say, real) hilarious moment...
...candidate is hoping to pad his campaign war chest by selling tickets to a “sexy, erotic” private party featuring scantily clad go-go dancers. So novel—and naughty—a fund-raising thrust has raised eyebrows and drawn national media attention since its announcement...