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...that the typical French film dialogue revolves around "screwing or not screwing," he notices four well-dressed women gawking at him from the next table. He jumps to his feet and introduces himself, then takes a seat with the ladies, bums a cigarette, orders a drink and spends a half-hour charming the delighted coterie and taking down their phone numbers. When he returns to resume the interview, he mutters, "You know, the libido is a frightening thing." He does not have to add that seduction, on and off the stage, is the actor's stock-in-trade...
...according to the scorebook, the inning never existed. The game was cancelled in between the top and bottom halves of the sixth after a half-hour rain delay...
...target market is people who want intellectual stimulation. Wegelius figures that 60% of Europeans are interested in lifelong learning. Here's how it works. One recent segment called Beat Lab concentrated on teaching people how to become pop stars. A series of 10 half-hour TV shows included discussions with popular groups such as Ace of Base about how they got started. The Kworld.se website offered a Beat Lab corner where people could chat online with artists, get resource material and link to music companies. The website sold a CD-ROM 10-part music course, which went from...
...blows, who know that Miramax's eternal ability to buy itself a Best Picture nomination is far more consequential than Bobby Knight's eternal ability to find himself another job coaching, um, hockey? And thankfully, it now has its own bloated pre-game show: not ABC's paltry, sycophantic half-hour with "Entertainment Tonight"'s addled Julie Moran, but the E! Entertainment Network red-carpet coverage, which I joined sometime around 1:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon but had apparently been in progress since about mid-January. Ultimate TV and TiVo, the fancy electronic video-recorder gadgets, advertise an inordinate amount...
Fans of irony circled March 6 on their calendars months ago. That was the day MICHAEL JACKSON lectured at Oxford University about the state of global childhood. During his half-hour talk, for which he arrived three hours late, the singer made reference to what he termed Generation O--"a generation that has everything on the outside...but an aching emptiness on the inside." Mostly Jackson used his time to paint a Hallmark Hall of Fame-style narrative of the emotional abuse heaped upon him by his father Joe. "I wanted a father who showed me love, and my father...