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...crew of Pulp Fiction, just talking about revenge-genre filmmaking," she says, "batting ideas around." In a matter of minutes she and Tarantino came up with a plot idea: a pregnant female assassin tries to go straight, gets viciously attacked at her wedding, loses her baby, slips into a coma, recovers and goes on a trail of revenge. Tarantino was so excited by the premise that he went home and wrote nine pages of the script in a multicolored felt-tip frenzy...
...fact that my 9 a.m. plans meant little to anyone else made them all the more special to me. Sarwer-Foner was going to be my third interviewee for my senior thesis—a relatively obscure physician for a relatively obscure topic: the history of insulin coma therapy for schizophrenia. If that doesn’t ring a bell, Russell Crowe convulsing violently through the window of Trenton State Psychiatric Hospital, as a pained Jennifer Connelly looks on, probably does. John Nash, the subject of A Beautiful Mind, received the now-defunct therapy for schizophrenia. (Incidentally, convulsions only occurred...
...TERRY WALLIS, 39-year-old Arkansas man uttering his first word after coming out of a 19-year coma...
...Ryazan, 300 km east of Moscow. When he returned home the next day, the fever worsened and his skin began peeling and breaking. When an ambulance was finally called a day later, he was so weak that he had to be carried to the car. He fell into a coma and died nine days later. Doctors suggest he had an allergic reaction to an unidentified substance, but his family, friends and colleagues in the liberal Yabloko Party demand an international investigation. Terror attacks against Russian civilians could hurt Putin in the run-up to parliamentary elections in December...
...first time in history that a man without the power of speech has the No. 1 record in the country. LUTHER VANDROSS had a stroke in April, and although he's no longer in a coma, he's still in the hospital. But his new album, Dance with My Father, buoyed by a hit single and sympathetic fans, sold more than 400,000 copies last week to grab the top spot on the Billboard charts--something Vandross had never done before. By contrast, last year's American Idol runner-up, Justin Guarini, who can't shut up, saw his first...