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...Tarantino was nervous, he appears to have recovered. When people on the set fouled up, they were serenaded with a chorus of Happy Birthday instead of being chastised with an uncomfortable silence. To break up the long shoots, Tarantino staged antics like "Skirt Day," on which men were encouraged to wear dainty frocks (he wore a kilt), and gave weekly wrap parties, including one raging bonfire dance in which Tarantino, his girlfriend (actress Mira Sorvino) and crew members boogied after midnight to the sound tracks from his previous films...
...instance, he told a federal judge that he had received important new information from the Clintons' former business partner Jim McDougal on a key portion of the investigation. Nine days later, Starr announced that he was abandoning the Whitewater probe to become a California law-school dean. (A chorus of jeers forced him to reconsider.) And in a major victory last week, he won the Supreme Court's tacit approval to go rifling through the notes of White House lawyers--then was again upended by his own poor judgment. The embarrassment came when the Washington Post reported that Starr investigators...
Charley Matthews is in Paris because he is a molester of sorts. He left his wife for a former chorus girl and then wrote a cheesy though popular novel that turned his ex-spouse into the injuring party. His French editor wants to publish the book, which the not-too-subtle translator says will be better in French...
...claims about the progress of the fractious tobacco talks: a settlement was imminent, negotiators had hit the worst impasse since the start of deliberations on April 3, talks were on the brink of collapse. Wait! There's a settlement! (Well, almost...) Finally, at 3:30 p.m. last Friday, a chorus of state attorneys general gathered around a microphone in the ANA's ballroom to congratulate themselves on what Mississippi's Michael Moore called "the most historic public-health achievement in history...
There are some sexist, NC-17 lyrics here, and like many double CDs, there's a good deal of filler. But the scolding, inspiring chorus of A Better Tomorrow--"You can't party your life away...'cause your seeds grow up the same way"--indicates that Wu-Tang is at least headed in the right direction...