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...Kolb, 7, needed minor ear surgery, and his doctors at Martin Memorial Medical Center in Stuart, Fla., began by injecting him with lidocaine, a local anesthetic. Except that it wasn't lidocaine; it was adrenaline, a powerful stimulant. A minute later Ben's blood pressure soared, and his heart began to race. Nine minutes later his blood pressure plunged, his heart rate dropped, his lungs filled with fluid, and he went into cardiac arrest. Within hours, Ben Kolb was dead...
...into the Paradise venue was like moving from one frigid environment to another. The club was fairly packed while The World is My Fuse thrashed and moaned, but most just stared blankly at their drink or attempted to participate in the well-worn "I'll scream in your ear, then you can scream in mine" concert conversation technique. Yes, The World was not enough...
...determined quota. It might have been better to cut the number of later tracks, and include founding member Peter Gabriel on more than one track. The collection is good, but not great, and when it comes to choosing songs, Genesis might have benefited from a more critical, more dispassionate ear...
...Beatles or Elvis perform live. Those entertainers, of course, combined talent with pizzaz. Now, there's a trace of talent, an occasional whizbanger of pizzaz, and a hell of a lot of screaming. Oh the screaming! It has to rank as the eighth wonder of the world. It shatters ear-drums, gives you an irregular heartbeat, gives you irritable bowel syndrome I felt like I was in a hyena stampede for two hours. Why are these girls fainting, throwing their underwear, crying their eyes out for boys who they can barely see from their nosebleed seats? A blockmate of mine...
This reliance on her ear is an oddity in a time when most actors, choosing a role, depend on that anatomically (and emotionally) imprecise region that lies somewhere between a hungry gut and a yawning ego. But it has kept Moore busy (21 features since 1992) and won her an Oscar nomination (for Boogie Nights) and the respectful regard of directors ranging from Steven Spielberg (The Lost World) to Robert Altman (Short Cuts), if not yet the kind of stardom that can carry a picture...