Word: ets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tale princess. After printing grainy shots of PRINCESS DIANA cozying up to playboy DODI FAYED, the Sunday Mirror declared authoritatively, "The whole world can see it's a book of love." The tabloids were busy reading the little black book of Dodi's past paramours (Brooke Shields, Winona Ryder et al.) when jilted model Kelly Fisher held a press conference, claiming Dodi as her betrothed and flashing a sapphire ring and a $440,000 breach-of-contract and fraud suit. Diana's future wedded abode was hotly debated: Would it be Julie Andrews' former Malibu home, reportedly just purchased...
Parker and Stone soon amassed fans including George Clooney, Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins and a number of Comedy Central executives who offered the pair an animated series based on characters in the film. The result, South Park, debuts on the cable channel Aug. 13 (10:00 p.m. ET...
Tempted, almost certainly, by the brakeless popularity of the syndicated series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, Fox this week launches Roar (Mondays, 9 p.m. ET), a show about a reluctant prince named Conor (Heath Ledger) who in 400 A.D. fought to save the last remaining Celtic land (what would become Ireland) from the nasty, enslaving Romans. Never mind that the Roman occupation of Britain was already crumbling by then and that it never extended to Ireland in the first place. Historical exactitude isn't something to be expected from a series with a prince who looks like...
...pushed," he says. "As chair of the leadership meetings, Paxon isn't elected to the leadership. He served at Gingrich's pleasure. So when Gingrich found out about the incipient uprising, he took his anger out on him." That uprising might have come off had Brutus, Cassius et al been able to decide who would be the new colossus. "It was supposed to be a bloodless coup," says Carney, "with Dick Armey, Paxon, and (GOP Whip) Tom Delay coming to Newt and telling him: 'we can't control the rank-and-file insurgents any more.' They were going to give...
...tool of conservatives, who use scare tactics to frighten voters into approving more radical legislation. (Consider constant hype over crime as one example: crime rates are lower now than they were at points during the 1910's, contrary to what we might think after listening to Rush, Newt, et...