Word: dame
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...they inhabit the garment - was a novelty buy by Tom Dunne for his St. Martin's Press imprint. It's the work of photographer Stephen Mosher, who spent six years collecting the hundreds of celebrity pictures from which those in the book will be chosen, including Alec Baldwin, Dame Maggie Smith, Glenn Close, Dominick Dunne, Tim Allen, Whoopi Goldberg, Julie Harris, Kathleen Turner, Angela Bassett, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick and many others. A substantial portion of Mosher's royalties will go to AIDS charities. Dunne aims to publish for Christmas next year...
...annual Miramax pre-oscar bash looked like a frothy success. Lots of celebs (Nicole Kidman! Salman Rushdie! Diane Sawyer!) and rivers of Piper-Heidsieck champagne. And there were skits as always--send-ups of the company's Oscar-nominated movies, including a spoof of In the Bedroom in which Dame Judi Dench dressed up like Sissy Spacek and chain-smoked...
Scott Appleby, director of Notre Dame's Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, says the Conference of Catholic Bishops should immediately hammer out an enforceable uniform code of binding policies that enshrine those principles. "The problem in the past," he says, "has been the autonomy of each bishop, free to adopt or ignore conference policies." Many have suggested that each diocese name a board of independent lay advisers--lawyers, psychologists--to oversee every abuse case. More rigorous screening and modernized seminary training for sexually immature priests would help...
...enormity of the scandal has provoked American Roman Catholics as nothing has before to call for debate on controversial doctrines--like celibacy, married priests, women priests. The Rev. Richard McBrien, a religion professor at the University of Notre Dame, thinks these issues lie at the root of the pedophile problem. The Boston archdiocese's official paper last week urged Roman Catholics to question and study whether these age-old tenets are still relevant. Liberal advocates argue that a church struggling to fill its depleted ranks of priests might get more healthy, sexually mature candidates if married men and women were...
...both starring and written by Jack Neo. For the past 12 years Neo's also found time to star in a highly rated comedy variety show, Top Fun, where he engages in the kind of gender-bending beloved by comics around the world. In Singapore, Neo is Ron Howard, Dame Edna Everage and about half the cast of Friends all rolled into...