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...providers stopped drilling for only about a year. But over the past decade, no major electric plant has been built in California, owing in part to intense environmental and community opposition. So Californians of all stripes--regulators, politicians, utility and power executives alike--are feeling more than enough heat, and deservedly. If they can't sort out their deregulation mess, other programs across the U.S. could easily short-circuit...
Laura Linney has been down this road before. It was 1998, and The Truman Show was being heaped with critical praise. By the time Oscar season rolled around, however, the film had lost much of its heat. Truman received a handful of nominations, but Linney was denied a nod for her creepy, hilarious turn as Jim Carrey's wife, an overly cheerful actress who periodically turns to hidden cameras in their home to plug household products, and the film itself was absent from the Best Picture category. "You call something the movie of the decade and you're asking...
...Hicks and His Hot Licks, "Beatin' the Heat" The comeback album from the '70s legend was one of the year's best surprises, with a batch of tunes almost as catchy, breezy and funny as those of his prime. An all-star cast of guests (Costello, Setzer, Midler) provides some spice, but Hicks sets the table all by himself...
...these groups manage to turn up substantial heat under Ashcroft (as some observers predict they will), Bush will face a crisis of faith, so to speak. Will he stand by his man, absorbing the political body blows as a form of payback to the right-wing religious organizations that secured his election? Or will he eventually decide that defending Ashcroft's potentially divisive record could cost more political capital than he's willing to lose so early in the game...
...took some heat from some of my teammates for that move," Merchant said with a grin. "But we were definitely having fun out there and going aggressive to the basket...