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...film distorts religion--notice the villainous cult's poorly veiled similarities and references to South Asian religions, including Hinduism. As David Sterritt of the Christian Science Monitor wrote in 1989, "racist implications...became uncomfortably strong in 'Temple of Doom,' where Indy strutted like a Great White Hero among people of color who were consistently helpless, villainous, or both...
...possibly mean (oh!) Hermione, (no!) Ron or (gasp!) Harry himself? Rowling discloses nothing, but she does note that the children who contact her "are always most worried I'm going to kill Ron. It shows how sharp they are. They've watched so many movies where the hero's best friend gets killed...
This writing-class hero grew up in Paterson, N.J., the adopted son of an optometrist and a stagestruck housewife who performed in charity shows. Says Vilanch: "She'd sing, do sketches--she's naturally very funny--and I'd imitate her and her friends." At Ohio State he wrote reviews and appeared in plays. "I was going to be Neil Simon, batting out one Broadway show after another." Then he joined the Chicago Tribune as a reviewer-columnist. One night he met the young Midler and said, "You're very funny. You should talk more onstage." He began honing Midler...
...York." It's a great venue for Agassi. Planes from La Guardia zoom overhead, patrons are ready to rumble. In one of sport's ripe ironies, tennis fans in Polo sweatsuits, sustained by $10-a-slice quiche, scream bloody murder in support of their idea of a working-class hero--formerly John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors, now Agassi. Back when Agassi had hair, he dusted Senior Citizen Connors as the crowd howled in dismay...
...crowded shelf of political autobiographies, John McCain's new book, Faith of My Fathers (Random House; 349 pages; $25), stands out in at least one way: it ends when the hero is only 36. It's not surprising that the Republican presidential hopeful would want to end the story there, with his release from a Vietnamese POW camp after 5 1/2 years of captivity. His Vietnam saga is, to say the least, riveting: try to imagine being strung up by your broken arms, beaten senseless by your captors and, then, when they offer you the chance to go home, saying...