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...Israelis may be doing this to send a message to more senior Fatah leaders such as Marwan Bargouti and Hussein Sheikh, saying 'We know where you live.' They're hoping to frighten those guys off and make them think twice about the consequences of attacks on Israelis, regardless of what they're saying I public. But whether this will actually make them think twice remains to be seen. Bargouti's office in Ramallah was previously rocketed when he wasn't there. Now they've got one of his guys, and they're saying 'It could have been you.' But there...
...funny thing about Steve Martin's first work of extended fiction, Shopgirl, is that it's not funny. At least not the laugh-out-loud-and-frighten-the-horses funny of Martin's early stand-up comedy, or of his performance as the man-woman in All of Me, or the humor pieces in his collection Pure Drivel. Shopgirl, which really is about a 28-year-old woman behind the glove counter at the Neiman Marcus department store in Beverly Hills, offers quieter pleasures: a delicate portrait of people inflicting subtle pain on others and themselves, and an appeal...
...David Hyde Pierce: "All actors, whether successful right now or not, have all been out of work. Out of work doesn't frighten us, but it can make us very angry." Actors, those on strike and those supporting them, have taken the time to paint a big, scary picture of union relations. "More and more companies are merging, fewer and fewer people are in control of everything," says David Hyde Pierce, who plays Niles Crane on TV's "Frasier." "So it makes it easier for large companies to dictate terms, rather than be responsive to what's fair and legitimate...
...bottle of mouthwash. It's like the chef of a four-star restaurant linking arms with the french-fry guy at McDonald's. But as Pierce notes, "All actors, whether we're successful right now or not, we've all been out of work. Out of work doesn't frighten us. But it can make us very angry...
...excited when there's actually something to see. (Steve Jobs called us many, many times.) The latest Pixar production is Monsters, Inc., due out on Thanksgiving 2001, starring BILLY CRYSTAL and JOHN GOODMAN--Crystal is the cyclops-pea, Goodman the yeti--as corporate monsters whose job it is to frighten kiddies. This being animation, they're also charged with being not so scary as to lose the stuffed-animal concession. Crystal and Goodman have the star power, but director Peter Docter says the real find is Mary Gibbs, 3, who happens to be the daughter of a Pixar employee...