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...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...
Cybersurfers have come slumming in droves. With nearly 40,000 visitors--or "hits," in cyberspeak--a day, The Spot has become one of the hottest sites on the Web. E-mail messages flash in from more than 50 countries. Fan suggestions are routinely incorporated into the onscreen action. "It's the interaction that makes it work," says Russell Collins, president of Fattal & Collins, the California ad firm that funded the $100,000 launch of The Spot...
...trail. Lamar Alexander, though, is a cat person, and when his family acquired two new kittens last year, he dubbed them Kato and Ito, a hopeful play on the potential of fame. For the past year, as Alexander struggled to win the attention of Republican-primary voters, he would flash his chin-up smile and explain that he was "encouraged by the experience of Kato Kaelin that it's possible these days to get very well known very quickly...
...skin and a predilection to say "Eh?" a lot.) As the guy who cleans up a ghetto, helps a crippled kid and does battle with a rampaging Hovercraft, Chan shows off the muscle of a superhero and the charm of a deft comedian. He doesn't swagger or threaten, flash his Magnum .44 or talk dirty to women; he's Gentleman Jackie...
...FRED ASTAIRE WAS white tie and tails, Gene Kelly was white socks and loafers--often enough with his cuffs casually rolled up so we could better appreciate the flash of his footwork. If the sinuous elegance of his great (and friendly) rival shone most brilliantly on the polished surface of a ballroom floor, Kelly's robust athleticism seemed to rise most exuberantly from a gritty city sidewalk. Astaire put us in touch with our romantic ideals and with that perfection of manner the rest of us attain only in our more blissful daydreams. At his best, Kelly reminded us that...