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...meet and date at this stage of my life," says Connor, 60, who divides his time between homes in Plano, Texas, and Naples, Fla. "It's making that initial effort--when you find yourself alone after so many years with one person--that's the hardest part of dating...
...continue to play? As the peace process has stuttered on, even its enemies accepted it should be strong - to keep potential rebels in line and to stop weapons being turned to street crime. Now republicans themselves are implying the I.R.A. is a busted flush. After sorry, the hardest word may be goodbye...
...somber news. The epidemic, which experts thought had begun to level off, seems to be accelerating. According to the latest estimates from the U.N., AIDS will claim 68 million lives by 2020--roughly the number of people killed in all the wars of the 20th century combined. In the hardest-hit countries, the public health systems have utterly failed. In the first survey of how widely anti-HIV treatments are used, researchers found that less than 4% of those infected have access to appropriate medications. Drug therapies are not the only answer, however. Another report suggests that low-tech measures...
...tightly programmed individual. Not robotic--Cruise likes to laugh, and he laughs a lot--but he does seem to be remarkably free of the kind of negative emotions that tend to plague mere mortals. And it is playing mere mortals that seems to give him the hardest time. In Eyes Wide Shut, where Stanley Kubrick put a camera on his face to capture inner turmoil, Cruise appears uneasy rather than tormented. He seems most comfortable, onscreen and off, when he is taking action. He describes himself as a pragmatist. He is, above all, organized. "I've always admired the guys...
...control them." This is a sharp observation, but not quite so passionately expressed as his remarks about Guido's difficulty in getting his next film started - the subject of "8-1/2": "In order to make the movie you want to make, you need time. But that's the hardest thing to find when you're a filmmaker." Scorsese was putting "Voyage" together in 1998-99, when he was finally ramping up his long-deferred "Gangs of New York." In light of the tortured, tortuous process of that film's production, his comment sounds like a cry de profundis...