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...string of superhits that began with Midnight's Children (1981). Rushdie-watchers were divided about The Ground Beneath Her Feet(1999), but almost no one was prepared to stand up for Fury (2001), which tells the story of a middle-aged thinker who makes a fortune as a TV doll-maker, then flees a bad marriage and goes to New York. There, while falling in love with a young, Indian-born beauty, he expresses in very long paragraphs his rage at the shallowness and money-mindedness of modern Western civilization. Fury wasn't just over-written, poorly plotted and ludicrous...
...Michael Bloomberg said a very bad word because 101.1 Jack FM replaced his beloved oldies station. (You'd think the guy could afford a satellite radio.) Steven Van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band said it was like replacing the Statue of Liberty with a blow-up doll, which he meant as a negative...
...things to smile about. The $80 million Brothers Grimm, his most accessible, entertaining movie yet, is coming out in Gilliam's director's cut. Two weeks later the more intimate, $15 million Tideland, based on Mitch Cullin's 2000 novel about a lonely child who talks to Barbie-doll heads, will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. The man who some thought would never make another movie has fooled them, twice...
...DIED. RICHARD DOLL, 92, one of the first scientists to link cigarette smoking to lung cancer; in Oxford, England. The epidemiologist's 1949 findings, based on patient surveys at 20 hospitals in London, showed smoking to be the one habit consistent among the disparate population, leading to more definitive studies. Last year he published the final report in a half-century-long study by a group of British doctors, finding that continual smoking reduced life expectancy by 10 years, but that stopping, even late in life, could significantly improve...
DIED. RICHARD DOLL, 92, one of the first scientists to link cigarette smoking to lung cancer; in Oxford, England. The epidemiologist's 1949 findings, based on patient surveys at 20 hospitals in London, showed smoking to be the one habit consistent among the disparate population, leading to more definitive studies. Last year he published the final report in a half-century-long study of a group of British doctors, finding that continual smoking reduced life expectancy by 10 years but that stopping, even late in life, could significantly improve...