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DIED. ROSEMARY CLOONEY, 74, cello-voiced singer and actress; of lung cancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif. She disdained her 1951 song Come on-a My House, but the hit launched her career, which included starring with Bing Crosby in White Christmas and more recently giving warm, musicianly cabaret performances. This year she won a lifetime-achievement Grammy...
...what was so wrong with "Rogue Nations"? I loved the whole feel of it! Kind of a George Clooney thing, but with missiles...
...George Clooney is another acolyte. He wanted to work on a Kaufman project so badly that he decided to direct the one he was going to act in. The film, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, the life story of Gong Show creator Chuck Barris, is one of three Kaufman-penned movies due out this year. Another, Adaptation, is the result of Kaufman's failed attempt to adapt Susan Orlean's novel The Orchid Thief into a movie script. Nicolas Cage plays Kaufman. This is the definition of power: stars want to play you in movies about your failures...
...script stage for $1 million and watching it gross $31 million in the U.S.? Should Harvey really "admit defeat" after Miramax received 15 Academy Award nominations, the most of any studio? And isn't the impressive upcoming Miramax slate, which includes Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal and George Clooney's Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, sufficient proof that Harvey in fact has not "lost his way"? MATTHEW HILTZIK, VICE PRESIDENT Corporate Communications Miramax Films New York City...
...gave up on ER post-George Clooney, this book is what you have been craving. Gawande is a writer with a scalpel pen and an X-ray eye, and in this memoir he applies them to the world of the stressed-out, sleep-deprived, terrifyingly fallible trainee surgeon, where life-or-death decisions are made on the basis of five cups of coffee and an educated guess. A surgical resident himself, Gawande turns every case--from gunshot wounds to morbid obesity to flesh-eating bacteria--into a thriller in miniature, with the author in the role of the oft-stymied...