Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...News flash: Terry McMillan's big-bucks new novel How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Viking; 368 pages; $23.95) is a silly wish-fulfillment fantasy that barely qualifies as beach literature. Heroine Stella Payne is a beautiful, single, "forty-bleeping-two-year-old" black investment analyst who, though sexy and rich, hasn't had a date in months. Tired of waiting for a black prince to materialize in a paid-for Lexus, she flies to Jamaica on vacation, meets Winston Shakespeare, a tall, golden-brown, bashful 20-year-old assistant cook at a resort hotel, falls in love, and brings...
Correction to news flash: Stella isn't fantasy after all. Author McMillan, 44, single, renowned for griping raucously about no-account African-American men in her bestselling 1992 novel Waiting to Exhale, flew to Jamaica on vacation last June and fell in love with tall, golden-brown, bashful, 20-ish resort hotel employee Jonathan Plummer. They now live together, happily ever after, in McMillan's big house in Danville, California. "I don't anticipate us being together for the rest of my life," says the reflexively blunt author, "but right now it works and it's good...
...seventh inning, Harvard showed a flash of resiliency, evening up the score at 8-8. Unfortunately, the Crimson could not hold the lead; a Blue Devil double off Brown into the left-centerfield gap scored the game-winning run, handing Harvard another tough loss...
NETWORK EXECUTIVES ARE USED to being the butt of jokes, but few have endured the sort of abuse Warren Littlefield has. David Letterman loved to flash photos of the NBC programming chief on his show and make cruel remarks. In The Late Shift, HBO's recent movie about the late-night battle, Littlefield comes across as the arch network dunderhead, the guy who lost Letterman to CBS. In one scene, Littlefield (played as a smarmy nebbish by Bob Balaban) is so surprised by a phone call from Jay Leno that he races out of the toilet in his boxers, with...
...Brenda. She plays up the insecurities of the budding actress and her New Age quirks, like a bizarre predilection for chanting in times of stress, to devastating effect, cracking up the audience continuously. Despite her ditziness, she gets along because of her whining, her breasts, and, on occasion, a flash of brilliant...