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...most ways The Preacher's Wife is as traditional a Christmas confection as fossilized fruitcake. It has a big budget, big stars and a heartwarming rendition of Joy to the World. The songs are sung by diva Whitney Houston, who plays the wife of a disillusioned minister. Her co-star, Denzel Washington, is a sexy angel who wants to save Houston's neighborhood church as well as her troubled marriage. On paper, the movie looks as if it has all the ingredients for a box-office slam dunk. But there's one thing missing: white people...
Bryan Lee, a freshman out of Houston, brings his 4.4-speed to his column, which draws its name from a cosmic interaction between his fas unsername (blee) and the Houston Rockets' slogan during their championship years. He wrote his application essay about Jerry Rice and will name his fistborn son after the wide reciever. He bleeds burnt orange...
...years, the company has gained a reputation as one of the most aggressive. It bought its first U.S. funeral home in 1987 but as of mid-September owned 814 homes and 265 cemeteries, and has been driving hard to catch up to the industry leader, Service Corp. International of Houston (2,832 homes, 331 cemeteries). This year the Loewen Group has acquired almost $1 billion worth of additional funeral homes and cemeteries, including a stake in Rose Hills Memorial Park outside Los Angeles, the largest cemetery in North America, which Loewen acquired after outbidding SCI. The company's expansion...
Incentives can get a young audience into an opera house, but what will keep it there? American opera director Francesca Zambello, who has worked in innovative houses like Houston, Seattle and Los Angeles, agrees that spectacle has boosted opera's pulling power, but she rejects the TV comparison. "Young people are craving something beyond television sensibility," she says. "We need myth and large-scale emotions--dramas that present magnetic qualities. I think we want something we can't get in our own lives. The three tenors succeed because they are larger than our world...
BETH SUFIAN, 31; HOUSTON; attorney, law professor...