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DIED. MORTON DOWNEY JR., 67, raucous, chain-smoking host of the eponymous 1987-89 TV talk show; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. In the 1970s, Pope Paul VI knighted Downey for humanitarian work with war victims in Nigeria. But he is most remembered as the in-your-face host who bellowed and blew smoke at guests he didn't like...
EARTH ANGEL Maybe Roma Downey really is watching over each and every one of us, but you will still feel a lot better with the Digital Angel strapped to your wrist. This device, which took best in show at last week's Internet Wireless World, has a sensor that monitors your vital signs--heart rate, blood pressure and so on--and a tiny satellite receiver that plots your exact location at all times. If anything goes awry, a transmitter alerts the medics and tells them where you are. And if you are really in trouble, it will page Roma...
...that Calista Flockhart will never eat her young), Laura Linney ("lovely, leggy Laura Linney" as she's known among heterosexual males who work in the New York theater, where she got her start), Ellen Burstyn (brilliant performance as a drug addict in "Requiem For a Dream"; wonder if Robert Downey Jr. will be at the Oscars), Juliette Binoche, Joan Allen (want to go back to sleep but can't; confused at the idea of heterosexual males in the New York theater...
...have a gambling problem. It's not that I'm addicted to wagering, it's just that I'm not very good at it. I have lost bets this year on Robert Downey Jr.'s ability to stay out of trouble, on my certainty that a turkey-hand drawing Emeril Lagasse made for me would not contain "Bam!," on the actual lyrics to Christopher Cross's Arthur's Theme--and a sizable one on the presidential race that the Supreme Court totally screwed...
...should probably be grateful to Downey, who's handled his most recent arrest with a characteristic combination of dark, self-deprecating humor and irony. While he may not appreciate the symbolic nature of his legal woes, high-profile cases like his can serve only to heighten awareness of drug laws, directing a nation's focus on the inequities inherent in sentencing and parole procedures. Is addiction a criminal activity? Our laws say yes. Do our laws treat some addicts more equally than others? Certainly. Will those same addicts achieve useful lives without intensive treatment? Probably...