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...these films that said they were actors. I was like, 'You've got to be kidding me! This is about fucking and sucking!'" But quite a few thought it was about process and progress. Once the off-Broadway types got into porn, they relied on the actor's invaluable gift for self-hypnosis to convince themselves it was somehow legit. Spelvin, who says she appeared on Broadway in The Pajama Game and Cabaret, recalls, of Devil in Miss Jones, "I took the role very seriously. I was doing Hedda Gabler here! The fact that there was hard-core sex involved...
HOUSE (FOX, TUESDAYS, 9 P.M. E.T.) Perhaps because watching one snide Brit isn't enough for America, Hugh Laurie has reaped the benefits of airing after Simon Cowell's American Idol. Laurie camouflages his English accent, but not that British gift for precise derision, as Dr. Gregory House, a brilliant but nasty diagnostician. House is so gifted not in spite of but because of his cynicism--his misanthropy and suspicion make him the ruthlessly probing skeptic his patients need. And Laurie's portrayal turns House from a routine disease-of-the-week exercise into a chess match with illness...
Forget the grainy, two-dimensional images you typically get at the doctor's office. The 3-D footage these companies provide of yawning, smiling, blinking fetuses, in sepia tones and often set to music, is rapidly becoming the hip new baby-shower gift. Couples or their friends can spend upwards of $250 on deluxe packages that may include 5-by-7 portraits, DVDs and a personalized Web page. Denver's First View Ultrasound even offers catering and limousine service to accommodate large parties, in addition to unlimited Kleenex because customers are so moved by the ultrasound experience...
...gift was later called into question, following an investigation into ties between the chair and the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-up, an institute based in Abu Dhabi that, some HDS students alleged, promoted anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism...
...January 2003, Dean of HDS William A. Graham responded to the students’ allegations, saying he had “no intention of keeping the gift if we find that the obvious problems with the center’s website do represent the donor’s views—something we have no concrete evidence of at present...