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With the grace of a Ginsu-knife salesman, Donald Trump mixes advice--"Go with your gut" and "When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades"--with self-aggrandizing outbursts, like declaring that his dealmaking is so superb he "could negotiate peace in the Middle East." He is echoed only somewhat less obnoxiously by his co-writer, Bill Zanker. Thankfully, Trump stops short of listing the powerful women he claims to have slept with. "If I did, this book would sell 10 million copies," he says, adding smugly, "maybe it will anyway." Unfortunately, he's probably right...
...girl that spoke at the church. It was like, no way," says Stuart. Nevertheless, he and Tina decided to stick with SaBreena and formally adopted her two years later, when she was 14. But things only got worse. SaBreena became pregnant the following year and once took a large Ginsu knife from the kitchen and kept it in her room for days. "She had us all scared for the longest time," says Stuart...
...plugging it on the Tonight Show, and last fall he became the show's first celebrity contestant. Chin-Killa, built and operated for Leno by NBC technicians, was fronted with a metal facsimile of Leno's face and used his legendary protruding chin as a battering ram to defeat Ginsu, a rival BattleBot wielding a nasty set of rotary saw blades. "I like anything that rolls and explodes," Leno says. "And it seems like a good outlet for kids--a chance to use technology and a youthful enthusiasm for mindless violence without anybody getting hurt." (Less obsessive kids will soon...
...really blame them? Each month, some 6 million visitors flock to eBay's sprawling virtual tag sale, according to research firm Media Metrix, right behind Amazon's 8 million. A third of those browsers regularly bid on or sell a selection of nearly 2 million items, including computers, Ginsu knives, baseball cards and model trains, generating about $300 million in total transactions during the fourth quarter of fiscal 1998. "There's a constant trade show going on," says Steve Karas, of New York, who auctions sports cards on the site. By taking a 1.25%-to-5% cut on each...
Naturally, Eddie also gets agitated by the television, its sheer glut and ridiculous range of information from sitcoms to disasters to Ginsu knives. One shot isolates this inhuman condition of having a secondary reality at one's fingertips: Eddie's remote-control-enabled hand alone on the glowing background of the electronic hearth. How to distinguish anything in this white noise? Reduce everything to a series of zeroes and ones, of equivalences and otherwise? In perhaps the screens' best-ever depiction of date realism, Eddie pigheadedly refuses to allow the don't-mind answer of Darlene (Robin Wright Penn...