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Marcel Proust wrote great gossip. His epic novel, A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time), is artful celebrity journalism about the beautiful people of Paris in the early 20th century. This was also when movies came of age; and the novel's shuffling of tenses, from present to past to conditional, has its film equivalent in the flashback--the lightning stroke of emotional teleportation that brings a memory instantly, poignantly, to the mind...
...chat boards online are already speculating that 12-year-old Bianca, who has aged rapidly in her two year absence, will begin a relationship with Leo du Pres, a heartthrob who spent his formative years in European boarding schools...
...1960s the Convention's leadership, although conservative by most standards, allowed a loosening of its strict biblical interpretation. It aligned itself--loosely--with moderate Southern Democrats. Then, in a now famous meeting at New Orleans' Cafe du Monde, two scandalized conservatives, Paige Patterson and Paul Pressler, hatched an insurgency. Packing the annual convention of 1979, they elected a conservative president and unearthed bylaws that amplified his power. "Baptist battles" consumed each convention until 1990, when the right wing prevailed decisively. The SBC then allied itself with the Republican Party, insisted on word-for-word biblical inerrancy and produced a drumbeat...
...Cirque du Soleil's new Vegas show "Asian Pole Dancing" b) an exhibition sport for the Sydney Olympics c) a North Korean circus troupe d) The Perfect Storm: The Musical...
Even before the French Open kicked off this week, NATHALIE TAUZIAT was swinging at her fellow players. In her newly released memoir, Les Dessous du Tennis Feminin (The Underside of Women's Tennis), Tauziat, 32, complains that the game's fans and the Women's Tennis Association are more impressed by good looks than raw talent. She is particularly dismayed at the popularity of pulchritudinous ANNA KOURNIKOVA, 18, one of the top money earners on the tour last year despite the fact that she has never won a singles tournament. Tauziat brands Kournikova a self-absorbed "Lolita" who plays...