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...many of the 6,000 members, we wonder, voted for Marcia Gay Harden as Best Supporting Actress? In "Pollock," a film that has earned all of $3 million at the box office, she played Jackson Pollock's nattering, long-suffering wife Lee Krasner. In retrospect, and by the curious logic pertaining to Oscar, the award made sense. The Academy loves actresses whose roles demand they abase themselves in obscure accents. An underdog role can guarantee a victory in an election when most of the voters are actors, and in a time when serious acting is considered a mix of attitude...
...looking for classical music, a site called classicalwebcast.com guides you to stations around the globe. That's how I found Vltava in Prague, which plays a sophisticated selection of classical music. If you're curious about all this Icelandic pop you keep hearing about, you can do a more general search. Using "Icelandic radio stations" as keywords on Excite, I immediately got within a click of my destination - RUV, the national pop station...
...alleged flesh peddlers arrested in Atlanta last January were no exception. Law-enforcement officers hauled in "Playboy," "Worm" and "Poochie," among others. But while the suspects were busy being charged with 226 federal crimes in one of the biggest strikes ever against purveyors of underage prostitutes, they were most curious about a name most of them had never heard before. "Who," they asked, "is RICO...
...curious way, George Bush has benefited from Heraclitus's dictum. Because he was consistently underestimated and was prematurely dismissed as a bumbling empty suit, his stock rose when he managed to string a couple of sentences together. He was on the way down...
...alleged flesh peddlers arrested in Atlanta last January were no exception. Law-enforcement officers hauled in "Playboy," "Worm" and "Poochie," among others. But while the suspects were busy being charged with 226 federal crimes in one of the biggest strikes ever against purveyors of underage prostitutes, they were most curious about a name most of them had never heard before. "Who," they asked, "is RICO...