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...movie industry is about to honor some of its biggest flimflam artists--and we're not just talking about the Oscar ceremony on March 24. The Third Annual Golden Trailer Awards are scheduled to be handed out this week at Hollywood's grand old El Capitan Theatre. A panel of judges (including Ben Stiller) will cast their votes for last year's best trailers: those 2 1/2-minute theatrical reels, 30-second TV spots and eye-grabbing teasers. Some contenders made bad movies look good (Pearl Harbor); some helped B movies open big (The Fast and the Furious); all of them...
...some needles and taught me to knit. Because I held my needles too tightly, my would-be square looked more like a parallelogram. At the end of my stay, Anna presented me with a hearty wool blanket knitted from the squares. With characteristic Shetlander modesty, she hesitated to honor my request for her to stitch her initials in the corner. "Oh, why would I do that?" she said, laughing. It was not as if I would forget where it came from. But I wanted the reminder just the same...
...does, but made it clear that he expects his former running mate to make up his mind by the end of the year.) The weekend before, House minority leader Dick Gephardt, who represents St. Louis, made his third visit to New Hampshire in less than a year, ostensibly to honor a Super Bowl bet he had made with his counterpart in the New Hampshire legislature. And not long before that, Vietnam veteran John Kerry brought Democrats in Concord, N.H., to their feet with a stirring defense of their right to question Bush's handling of the war on terror...
...Which just goes to show you, there are greater degradations than those *NSync Chili's Baby Back Ribs commercials.) This was, after all, the already-legendary newest low point in reality TV, three three-round bouts between professional has-beens on network prime time. But congratulations, Fox: if by "honor" you meant "titillate, tease and ultimately leave feeling slightly dirty," well, mission accomplished...
...Getting free housing and food in the city of Cambridge is an advantage which many covet—hence the huge number of applicants to the program. After passing rigorous screening and interviews, the tutors are then supposed to integrate themselves into the House community. They work on an honor system; the University trusts that the tutors will voluntarily fulfill their duties without being monitored, and if there is a breach of that trust, the school has little way of knowing. Tutors are a substantial investment for the College, and it would be wise to follow up on the results...