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...willing and suitable donor with a gentleman's understanding, Dahl says, that McNutt would buy him a life-insurance policy, give him money to compensate for the pay he'd lose while recovering from surgery and--most important and perhaps most unrealistically of all--promise that he would never disappoint Dahl's sister. "I made it abundantly clear," says Dahl, "that the donation was for Dorothy's happiness...
...highlight of the evening was reliving old favorites, and lang didn't disappoint in this arena either. After a rendition of "Wash Me Clean," a song about "tarnished dreams," lang joked, "I promised that, no matter how tough things got, we would never sell that song to a detergent company!" Her description of the distance between two lovers in Chris Isaak's "Western Stars," from her country album Shadowlands, was also magnificent. But the audience's unquestionable favorite was her version of Roy Orbison's "Crying," in which she lamented at what seems sometimes to be a universal female condition...
...like smash-mouthed, high-action football, Saturday did not disappoint. As a team, the ninth-rated Crimson offense churned out 623 yards and 33 first downs Saturday, both all-time Harvard records...
...Eight Ball is starting to disappoint me. Time to go back to another nobranier...
...least Men in Black is a comedy--a fact that may surprise and disappoint the zillions who expect it to be this Independence Day's answer to last year's Independence Day. Director Barry Sonnenfeld (The Addams Family, Get Shorty) is just the chef to blend comedy and creepiness, as is writer Ed Solomon (It's Garry Shandling's Show, the Bill & Ted adventures). Early on, they do right by Lowell Cunningham's comic-book premise: that extraterrestrials have landed, that they are a scuzzy lot who deserve to be treated like illegal aliens and that the government...