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...What happened to John is the ultimate experience of life in Hollywood," says friend and screenwriter Scott Alexander, who co-wrote Ed Wood, The People Vs. Larry Flynt and Man on the Moon. "It's all quicksand. Fantastic success and absolute failure hover at all times. John finally got to direct his first movie: Success! But it's the lowest grosser in history, putting him in the Guinness Book of World Records: Failure! But now everybody wants to see the movie and meet him, and so he'll get more opportunities to make more movies: Success! Success! Success...
...gonna be simpler than I thought," agrees Ed Holliday, a 62-year-old hedge fund wholesaler from Laguna Niguel, California. "We're not required to be astronauts, like Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man." Actually, it's a two-way street. Virgin Galactic must find out before blast-off how people in their 50s, 60s and 70s - those most able to afford it - can cope with the stress of space travel. "To be commercial viable and safe, we need data on the way people react to g forces and the psychological experience of going into space...
...lined up to purchase Bolshoi magnets and T shirts, and ushers hawked commemorative calendars, Ratmansky slipped unnoticed into a back booth. Ignoring the commotion and scribbling notes, he kept his eye trained solely on his ballerinas, who wore the Bolshoi's traditional monochrome leotards and leaped and jetéed to Balanchine's original choreography. The performance was exquisite, and if you watched the stage very closely, as Ratmansky did, it seemed as though the Bolshoi had never missed a step...
...heels of a recently released study by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy that warns that democracy is a long way from coming to the southern part of the country. In their report, "The Calm Before the Storm: The British Experience in Southern Iraq," Michael Knights and Ed Williams observe that greater Basra "has suffered one of the worst reversals of fortune of any area in Iraq since the fall of Saddam's regime." Once a cosmopolitan city and the center of Iraq's oil industry, the city - under British control - has become a violent maelstrom of warring Islamic...
This is the third op-ed in a series on Black History Month...