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...JESTER FOOL FOR LAUGHS...
...make a complete fool of oneself movie after movie takes confidence. Not a problem for JIM CARREY. "I don't care if people think I am an overactor," he says, "as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter." Unlike Vincent, Carrey has found fans while he's still alive. So far, most have Y chromosomes and are under 25. But he's hoping his newest movie, Liar Liar, in which he plays a dad who has to tell the truth for a day, will change that. "It will open...
...late-term abortion are as tragic as those endured by the women Clinton introduced at his press conference when he vetoed the ban last spring. But, in addition to physical health, courts have allowed "emotional, psychological, familial" factors to be considered, as well as "the woman's age." We fool ourselves if we don't acknowledge that these exceptions have been extended to women too poor, too young, or too dysfunctional to care for a child--or obtain a timely abortion. When Clinton asks for a "health of mother" exception in the current bill, without specifying physical health...
Since the issue came out, Padilla says students have called him a fool, idiot, bigot, fascist and Nazi...
...break out the purple ink in Payback (Knopf; 273 pages; $23). "Billy peered over the edge of the roof," Kelly writes. "Far below, the life of the city surged through the streets like the blood of a great snarling beast, unimpeded by his concerns. He was just one more fool in its hard history who'd gotten in over his head." Good magenta stuff, requiring only a little Hammond-organ ominoso to sound like the musings of Guy Noir, Garrison Keillor's private eye, who works "on the 12th floor of the Acme Building, in a city that knows...