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...Travolta-the sultry young stud of Saturday Night Fever and Grease, the wily thug of Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty and Face/Off-hasn't been up close with another guy recently. In his new movie, Hairspray, based on the 1988 John Waters comedy and the 2002-Tony-winning musical, he does a funny-passionate dance with Christopher Walken. And Walken leads. Travolta, walking in the pumps of Divine in the earlier film and Harvey Fierstein on Broadway, plays Edna Turnblad, the beyond-zaftig Baltimore mom of a '60s teenage girl who dreams of appearing on a local TV dance show. (Walken...
...ages, and Travolta is a big reason why. Encased in a foam-rubber fat suit, and channeling Blanche DuBois and Miss Piggy, he reveals his feminine side in a way that could have made Stanwyck smile in appreciation. And though Edna hasn't quite the agility of Saturday Night Fever's Tony Manero, Travolta is still a dancing champ at any weight...
...flowers of her beloved Texas Hill Country, former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson passed away at her home in Austin from natural causes. A few weeks earlier, she had been admitted to a hospital for tests after suffering from what a family member said was a low-grade fever...
...Neither side has claimed they have the votes on any of the three amendments, and lobbying from environmental groups has reached a near fever pitch. U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) got 50 Senators to sign a letter supporting the renewable provision (plus Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, who penned his own letter) and sent that to the Democratic leaders. Without that measure, the group would be "hard-pressed" to support the overall legislation, said Anna Aurillo, legislative director for PIRG. Friends of the Earth, meanwhile, tried to dump a ton of coal in a Senate park last week...
...their 30s are worse off financially than their fathers.) Real estate may not offer double-digit returns anymore, but it does offer an atavistic promise of security, a nest egg embodied in Sheetrock that you can touch and dirt that can't be outsourced to Mumbai. Property fever is in our blood: this country made its fortune in sweet real estate deals--a Louisiana Purchase here, a few trinkets for Manhattan there--and these HGTV shows tap into something primal...