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...back 5,000 years in its native India, yoga has suddenly become so hot, so cool, so very this minute. It's the exercise cum meditation for the new millennium, one that doesn't so much pump you up as bliss you out. Yoga now straddles the continent - from Hollywood, where $20 million-a-picture actors queue for a session with their guru du jour, to Washington, where, in the gym of the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and 15 others faithfully take their class each Tuesday morning...
THAT CINNAMON, THAT’S HOLLYWOOD...
Ultimately, the heart of Bridget Jones’s Diary is Zellweger. Despite all the controversy concerning the casting of the petite Texan as the British Bridget (London’s Evening Standard declared the decision an act of “clunking, Hollywood idiocy,” noting that casting Zellweger as Bridget Jones was like casting Jude Law as the Elephant Man), Zellweger absolutely sparkles and charms in the role. With an additional and visibly obvious 20 pounds added to her normally petite frame, it initially appears as if the filmmakers have missed the point of Bridget Jones...
...subject of nonsensical monikers, what in the world does “Eden’s Crush,” the name of the WB Popstars group, mean?) But it’s become quite clear over the years that those who go to Hollywood with the explicit intent of becoming famous inevitably end up in AAA meetings, Betty Ford or the adult section at VideoPros. And it’s not just drugs or alcohol—others slip into phobic behavior, sex addictions, obsessive-compulsive patterns, co-dependent relationships, hallucinations, etc. Maybe their mommies didn?...
...like the movie either. Said the Cuban state news agency about Thirteen Days, “The North Americans are presented yet again as the saviors of the world, while Cuba appears in the film, according to some critics, as mere decoration in a sugary film of pure Hollywood style. With more dialogue than action, the film tends to send the spectator to sleep.” Looking back, the Elian Gonzalez brouhaha would have been a lot simpler if we had just traded Kevin for Elian. (Wouldn’t I make a great Attorney General...