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...doomed to relive the same day until he got it right, in the process evolving from a surly (but funny) egoist into a sweet (slightly less funny) human being. "In that role he actually got at the edge between the better, higher, gentler Bill and the bad, cranky, dark Bill," says Ramis. "He figured out how to project the entirety of himself through character. When we were making the film, I'd launch into some explanation of the scene we were about to do, and he'd say, 'Just tell me--good Phil or bad Phil...
Susan Sontag was our icon of the questing mind. FOR more than 40 years she made it seem both morally essential and utterly sexy to know everything--to have read every book worth reading, seen every movie worth seeing. It didn't hurt that she also possessed a dark, slightly exotic beauty, the kind that could make her seem like the star of her own foreign film. You only had to look at that thunderbolt of silver in her abundant black hair. What was it if not the outward sign of a mind illuminated by its own lightning...
BENEFITS: Relieves pain, tenderness and swelling. RISKS: Stomach irritation and bleeding. Drowsiness. Unpublished data suggest it may promote heart disease, but other studies indicate a cardioprotective effect. If you experience blurred vision, skin rash, ringing in the ears or signs of internal bleeding, such as bloody vomit or dark stools, contact a physician...
...whose hit recording of Cole Porter's Begin the Beguine and subsequent work helped define the Big Band era; in Lakeville, Connecticut. In between frequent retirements, the "King of Swing" recorded such hits as Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive, Moonglow and Dancing in the Dark with his eponymous big band and the Grammercy Five. A brainy and sometimes irascible perfectionist who was married eight times (including to Lana Turner and Ava Gardner), Shaw had little patience for the music business, which he quit for good...
...auditorium of Tripoli's Corinthia Hotel, a number of Libyan officials sit onstage in dark suits and ties, addressing scores of Western executives in flawless English about the country's new business opportunities. A few feet away is a huge portrait of the most famous face in Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, in his trademark African robe and sunglasses, fist in the air, a defiant look on his face, as if to say to the roomful of businessmen: I still run things around here. But the businessmen don't seem to notice. Instead they are transfixed by a tall young man with...