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...marketing and managerial skills at Hasbro (Mr. Potato Head was one of her toy lines) and worked as a marketing executive at Disney. At first it didn't look as if she was going to come. She had strong ties to the East Coast--kids in school and a husband who was a top brain surgeon at Massachusetts General--and eBay seemed like a lark. But looking at the numbers and getting a sense of the passion people felt for eBay, she was hooked...
...their travels over the years, she and her husband had acquired acres of stuff. She started posting lots of it for auction. When she was well enough, she began attending public auctions and buying up lots. Today she tests her strength, challenging herself with eBay, working as much as her illness allows. "For me," she says, "it wasn't the sale. It was being part of something again. It was the contact with people. I guess I used it to make me feel better...
...even in the boonies, as Patricia Hoyt calls her hometown of Baker, Mont., roughly 225 miles from the nearest big city, Billings. The old economy of oil and cattle has not been kind to Baker, and when oil prices dropped, business dried up at the motel Hoyt and her husband...
...people don't ask for much--enough food, adequate shelter and a mildly entertaining Oscar-night show that gets us to bed before sunrise. Hollywood, in all its benevolence, is hard at work on granting us the latter. The producers of next year's Academy Awards show, husband-and-wife team Lili and Richard Zanuck, made a public plea this month to intermittent emcee BILLY CRYSTAL, who last year ceded the hosting duties to Whoopi Goldberg. "It's the one thing people agree on--they all want Billy," said Lili (kindly refraining from adding, "just not in any more...
Director Scott Hicks' version is faithful to the story's main beats. There's Ishmael, the physically and emotionally wounded hero (Hawke); Hatsue (Kudoh), the forbidden and then lost love of his childhood; her husband Kazuo (Yune), charged with killing an Anglo neighbor after a land dispute; and all kinds of characters who behave well and badly as his trial unveils the community's hatreds and suspicions...