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PRODUCT PLACEMENT At Game 2 of the World Series between the Angels and the Giants, Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu took the opportunity to flog their Charlie's Angels sequel
...town fresh from copping the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. It's basically a women-in-prison movie, set in Dublin in the '60s, when some girls were sent to convent reformatories, which, at least as shown here, were run by some very nasty nuns. They flog the girls, make ribald fun of their naked bodies, drive them to despair or madness. The young cast squeezes every righteous tear from the audience. But Magdalene would be a better film - at least, it might have been a good one - if it had shown the nuns, themselves the victims...
...daughter, JEANNE PHILLIPS, left, of trying to cash in on Landers' death. Phillips, who inherited Dear Abby, went on Larry King Live and made public her grief over her aunt's death. Howard, who writes a Dear Prudence column, says her cousin's appearance was an attempt to "flog" the Dear Abby column and gain wider distribution among newspapers. We're no experts, but here's our advice: someone in this family should find a different line of work...
...That sounds like the rant of utopian cranks, but both authors are respected even in the boardroom. McDonough is lead architect on a $2 billion project to rejuvenate Ford's massive River Rouge plant; Braungart helped found Germany's Green Party. Rather than flog humans for being wasteful beasts, they celebrate our propensity to consume, insisting there are ways to make that impulse a healthy part of a dynamic ecosystem. In Cradle to Cradle, the authors question why shampoo bottles, yogurt containers, and candy wrappers aren't made of biodegradable material. Why can't trainers be designed to eventually fertilize...
...Adviser Condoleezza Rice to discuss policy toward Sudan, a country that persecutes Christians and is therefore of particular interest to evangelicals. And he helped conceive what the Bushies call the "Echo Chamber," a plan to use the media's obsession with marking the first 100 days in office to flog Bush's accomplishments...