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Jesus Christ was a carpenter. Bob Hampton is a handyman. Actually, he's an aspiring but discouraged artist spending a summer in Los Angeles as a Mr. Fix-It, but Christ haunts this novel because Bob develops an odd knack for transforming the lives of those he works for--the lonely, the helpless, the disconnected. Bob also sleeps with a lot of his clients, but he brings them clarity and color, a transcendent color that eventually finds its way onto his canvases. With this compelling work, one that requires some suspension of disbelief, See evokes an L.A. rarely seen...
...hammer... A woman who sat in front of BOB VILA on an airline flight is seeking $127,000 from the world's most famous handyman for pain and mental anguish. Carol Berger claims that Vila, host of Home Again, took a break from pounding dry wall to pound the back of her seat with his foot and fist during a flight from Denver to Eugene, Ore. She didn't mention why. Vila issued a statement calling the allegation "baseless" and says he has never met Berger. Maybe he was just annoyed that her seat and tray table were...
Phyllis (Julie Christie) is sad. A former horror-film star, she spends her days watching her old movies on cassette and brooding about her runaway daughter. Her husband Lucky (Nick Nolte) is...well, lucky--a handyman with plenty of randy women for clients. Marianne (Lara Flynn Boyle) is one of them, feverish with desire for the baby her financier husband Jeffrey (Jonny Lee Miller) is too preoccupied to provide...
Actually, much of what has gone wrong with Mir is largely a result of unavoidable wear and tear. Improvised fixes have helped the Russians solve problems--at least temporarily--as they have arisen, and experts say that this handyman approach is appropriate for a ship designed for years of use. "The space station is a different vehicle from the shuttle," says James van Laak, a NASA deputy director. "You tolerate a different set of failures...
...anger over the discovery Saturday of the bodies of two long-missing eight-year-old girls, dug up from a makeshift grave, and the rescue of two other kidnapped teens from the basement dungeon of the suspect, a convicted child rapist who had been released early on parole. Handyman Marc Dutroux, whose confession led police to the bodies of the two dead girls, admitted he kidnapped two other missing teenaged girls, and a search is underway for their bodies. The search takes place amid suspicions that Dutroux is part of a large European child prostitution and pornography ring. Belgian police...