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Babe Ruth was a champion at almost everything he did. The dominant player in baseball history, he transformed the way the game was played. Off the field, he could scarf down 18-egg omelets, chug-a-lug boilermakers (ice cubes and all) and, it has been claimed, make love seven times a night. A beloved boor, he also liked to show off a silver loving cup he won for placing first in a flatulence contest. Yet the Babe, product of a Baltimore reform school, came up short in one area. "My grandfather," says Ruth descendant Thomas Stevens, "always regretted that...
Regrettably, some of the American pieces are the weakest of the lot. Relying on a filmsy premise and marred by silly synthesized pseudo-rap, "Mrs. Matisse" tries to recount Henri's beleaguered wife's tale of woe but ends up sounding silly. "Opposing Views," featuring chicken and egg talk-show guests seems a waste of all the work which undoubtedly went into it. With so much time to spend thinking about it, getting beyond the first joke shouldn't be so hard for an animator...
...alas, for every dark goose egg there is a silver lining: there has been an uprising of strong defensive play--more specifically in the goalie department...
...roar of the sea at Black-pool, England. In a contraband exchange gone awry, we meet the disturbed Jack Parker, played by the sparkling young Brit, Lee Evans. In an apparent outtake from a David Lynch feature, Parker is left alone in the sea with a wax egg and two severed feet. Unlike a Lynch flick, "Funny Bones" will let you in on the joke, if you wait for the punchline...
...years (or in some cases a few decades) in cyberspace and know whereof they speak. One of them is Clifford Stoll-a gangly, wild-haired astronomer who got his first modem in 1971 and jacked it into the Internet's precursor, the Arpanet. His 1989 book The Cuckoo's Egg, which told how he used the Net to trap some German hacker spies, was the first Internet-related best seller. How does he feel now about the place he helped popularize...