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...optimistic people, and movie studios feed on optimism, so this fall we'll be tempted with not only Ocean's Twelve but also Renee Zellweger and Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason; Wesley Snipes' third vampire film, Blade: Trinity; and in what has to be the first case of a throwaway dirty pun being incarnated into main characters, Meet the Fockers. The sequel to Meet the Parents even lured in big names Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman to play Ben Stiller's parents...
...promised savings of about 20% on terminal-related costs. So far only Tiger Airways has signed on, but authorities hope the terminal will handle about 2.7 million passengers a year. Singapore, however, will face competition from neighboring Malaysia, which is finalizing plans for its own no-frills terminal. --By Hugh Chow...
...Tonight Show? in late-night. ?Home,? which premiered in January 1954, completed the trifecta, as another of Phyllis? daytime programs aimed at flattering the intelligence and expanding the interests of its (mostly female) audience. Francis, with her breezy assurance and fabulous social-baritone voice, co-hosted the show with Hugh Downs. They interviewed guests ranging from Jerry Lewis to Helen Keller to Judge Joseph N. Welch, the Army?s attorney in the Army-McCarthy hearings that ended Joe McCarthy?s four-year run as the Capital?s chief witch-hunter. ?We were an educational program,? Francis said later...
...Last Train Hugh Sidey described the journey of Nancy Reagan and her family as they flew to Ronald Reagan's grave site in California [THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY, June 21]. After the sudden death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt took a similar journey as a special train carried F.D.R.'s coffin from Warm Springs, Georgia, where he died, to Washington and then to Hyde Park, New York. The train drew hundreds of thousands of mourners all along its route, many openly weeping as the cars moved by. Here is part of our report on the first...
...Hugh Sidey's "The Gipper's Final Flight" was a lovely tribute to Ronald Reagan [June 21]. It was warm, human and touching and gently reminded us that Reagan's family members are real people who love, feel loss and mourn, but will keep on living. Sidey's words were a fitting benediction for a man who was more than the sum of his public personas throughout the years. MICHELE CHALMERS Cary...