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...unexamined life isn't worth living--even if that life has entailed becoming incomprehensibly rich on a roller-coaster ride of sex, tongue wriggling and rock 'n' roll. No wonder then that GENE SIMMONS, the bassist for Kiss, has laid down his life story--from his birth in Israel as Chaim Witz to his band's farewell tour--in a new autobiography, Kiss and Make-Up. Along with dirt on drug-crazed bandmates ("No different than your dad, who, when he comes home, gets drunk and becomes a moron," he tells TIME) and his relationships with Cher and Diana Ross...
...undercover police officer in the city. The movie traces the one day that Harris spends with a trainee, Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke), and Hoyt’s attempts to prove to Harris that he has what it takes to make it in the squadron. Trailers emphasize the roller-coaster ride that Hoyt will endure in that one day, as his idealism crashes violently against Harris’s reality, so expect lots of morality tales that question what officers should do when confronted by a sea of crime, or when their only option is to become brutal criminals themselves...
...consumer-safety report issued last week says a record 10,580 people landed in the ER with amusement park- and carnival-ride injuries in 2000. That's the kind of stat that roller-coaster freaks take as a challenge. As they flood amusement parks this Labor Day weekend for a final dose of stomach-turning fun (or a shot at the record), we give you a handy guide to the summer's greatest thrills...
...AROUND # 1 Millennium Force, Cedar Point, Ohio The tallest (310 ft.) and fastest (92 m.p.h.) full-circuit coaster in the U.S.--the wait is an hour-plus, down from five when it first opened...
...rode my first roller coaster, and despite the fact that the Superman ride had gotten stuck moments before I got on, I wound up riding it until they kicked us off and closed the park...