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...Christopher Lee). Joseph Campbell might have got a kick out of the mythic reverberations, but for the rest of us the story is a thin clothesline on which to hang some terrific computerized beasties (the iguana hashslinger Dexter Jettster, the tall, graceful llama-lamas of planet Kamino) and fab set pieces (a treadmill struggle in the clone factory). Lucas guides these scenes with ingenious care. As for the actors, they're on their own, and it shows...
...college, but soon it will be time to move on—I need to explore. Still, I’m a bit apprehensive, naturally, about the people I’ll be leaving behind, at least for the moment. There’s the impending breakup of the Fab Four—my three best friends from China, Ethiopia and Vietnam whom I’ve been with since fourth grade. There’s Mama, and my little sister, and my dad. And soon there will be no more Harvard, either. For a person who cares too much...
...Skinny and brown might be an amusing goal if Tansy ever morphed into Ab Fab's Edina. She doesn't. Instead her shock upon discovering that parts of Vietnam are squalid makes for condescendingly dark comedy. And it would take a more skillful parody to convince readers that Tansy hopes Asia will wean her off drugs...
...very different from many people in that he didn't have fear of death," said Gil Lederman, one of his doctors there. "He felt that life and death were part of the same process." Harrison's passing leaves only Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr as surviving members of the Fab Four - John Lennon was murdered in New York City...
...During the Beatles' grand conquest of America in 1964, when their initial appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show drew an astonishing 73 million viewers and made them an overnight phenomenon, Harrison spent his days holed up in the Plaza Hotel with a high fever while the fab other three paraded around town, wowing the world's press with their vitality and wit. Then it was on to Washington for a concert at the Coliseum before more than 7,000 screaming fans. "It was bloody awful," Harrison told biographer Geoffrey Giuliano. "Some journalist had apparently dug up an old quote...