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...Shark Tale’s main characters, Lenny (a shark voiced by Jack Black) is so obviously meant to be a doppelganger for a homosexual man that five-year-olds are likely picking up on it well before the scene in which Lenny has a garish performance in full drag as a dolphin (the peaceful, sensitive creatures of the film’s world...
...shells, the talk is of the disruption of nature's rhythms. "When was the last time we went hunting on snow machines?" owner Percy Nayokpuk asks a customer. "About 15 years," answers Reuben Weyiouanna. Because a loaded snowmobile would break through the ice, the elders these days have to drag their boats seven miles across the ice to go hunting--and the season begins in May instead of June. "If the weather keeps changing," says Nayokpuk, "it will mean the end of Shishmaref...
...YOUNG ACTOR IN BAD Education knows it is the role of a lifetime. After all, he says, the scenario he has just presented to a famous director is the story of his own life. Who better to play the leading part? Yes, the main character is a drag queen but, he tells the director, "if I look too manly, I can slim down." Pride mixes with desperation as he adds, "I'm very flexible. I can do anything...
With retro ladylike fashions ruling the runways, an old-fashioned item is also making a comeback: false eyelashes, currently offered by cosmetics companies like MAC, Shu Uemura and Sephora. Once considered too gaudy for all but show girls, drag queens and Tammy Faye Bakker, fake lashes were a fashion faux pas in the '80s and '90s. But after Jennifer Lopez showed up at the 2001 Oscars wearing red-fox-fur lashes, the idea began to come back into vogue. "Makeup artists have been using false lashes for fashion shows and on celebrities for the past few years," says Chris Salgardo...
...economy eventually reaches the tangled thicket of the U.S. health-care system. The price of health care is climbing four times as fast as everything else, and health insurance premiums rose nearly 14% last year. Economists say the cost for employers of providing benefits is a serious drag on hiring. Workers are no better equipped to pay the rising costs, and many are going without any insurance. More than 15% of the population had no health insurance last year...