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...through so many medical crises (brain tumors, broken backs), all chronicled by the tabloids, that she comes to seem at last to be a gloriously vulgar principle of unsinkability. Each brush with mortality makes her more immortal. Famous in the supermarket racks for being famous--famous for being fat or for getting thinner, famous for death and resurrection...
Gladiator is quite a good movie--a big, fat, rousing, intelligent, daring, retro, many-adjective-requiring entertainment. It has lots of fighting, but with a posh accent; this may be the first culturally acceptable version of WrestleMania. Beyond the spectacle of large men grabbing and stabbing one another, Gladiator offers body halvings, decapitations, unhandings. A pity the slaves must die for the public's sport, and a pleasure that we get to watch. Violence is an issue directors love to deplore and exploit...
...same can be said of Smith. She planned to be a tap dancer ("I got too fat") or a jazz singer ("I wasn't as good as Aretha"), despite a lifelong interest in writing. She grew up in an irreligious, working-class household in London. Her father, a onetime photographer, and her mother, a model turned child psychoanalyst, divorced when she was 12. Smith took to writing short stories and poetry during an adolescence she describes as "pathologically angst ridden." She hasn't outgrown the angst: her manner is painfully serious, even defensive, despite the success of White Teeth, which...
...queasiness still abounds over options and their tendency to make corporate fat cats even fatter. In Germany, where the culture places greater emphasis on making it to the top of a company than on lining your pockets once you get there, option giveaways still consume only about 5% of total corporate profits. At the German chemical company BASF, CEO Jurgen Strube collects about $300,000 worth of options a year. "In the U.S., you have CEOs who earn more than $100 million on their options," says BASF vice president Hans-Otto Brinkkotter. "We avoid that...
FOOD RX Wondering if any dietary recommendation has merit these days? Well, a report on 42,000 women shows that the current federal guidelines--lots of fruits, veggies, low-fat protein and grains--can indeed reduce the risk of dying from cancer, heart disease or stroke. May sound familiar, but this is one of the few reports that look at the health effects of overall diet, not just a single food or food group. The message? Fill your plate with the good stuff...