Word: fricker
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Much of the medical establishment is skeptical. "Montignac's diet works short term because anyone loses weight when deprived of sugar and starch," says nutritionist Dr. Jacques Fricker. "But it could be dangerous, since up to 70% of his calories come from fat, which increases the risk of heart disease." Says Felicia Busch of the American Dietetic Association in Chicago: "The most important thing we know is that fat content is what makes people fat, and his theory goes against the scientific grain." Others complain that he encourages too much alcohol consumption, which could cause liver damage. Montignac denies...
...that Kevin's final confrontation with the crooks -- this time he booby-traps a brownstone that is undergoing renovation -- lacks the bestartling hilarity of his previous battle with them. It may be that his bonding with a homeless pigeon lady (Brenda Fricker) in Central Park is a touch too Christmasy. But it is a good-hearted excess. And that's the great thing about Home Alone 2. It is going to make a ton of money, but you never feel that's the only reason it was made. It respects itself and it respects us, and there's no reason...
...cinema owes a large debt to the Irish as well. Imagine some of the greatest films of our time without Peter O'Toole, Maureen O'Hara, Richard Harris or Anjelica Huston. Some of the film industry's most promising rising stars are Irish: 1990 Academy Award winner Brenda Fricker, director Jim Sheridan, and wunderkind Kenneth Branagh, touted as 'the next Olivier...