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ANIMAL PLANET Unlike those PBS documentaries on cheetahs that high school kids have long enjoyed watching while stoned, the programming on this network is high concept. There is still, however, some gnarly stuff. Crocodile Hunter tracks the boyish-yet-bad-ass Steve Irwin and his wife through Australia, where they pick up snakes and outrun emus. Even those who don't like animals--in fact, especially those who dislike animals--can enjoy Emergency Vets, a cinema-verite take on a Denver veterinary office. Rover and his owner dealing with a run-over paw make great TV. And perhaps the network...
...first-time novelists burst onto the scene, as Norman K. Mailer '53 and Irwin Shaw establish themselves. Mailer writes perhaps one of the best fictional works on World War II in The Naked and The Dead and Shaw wrote The Young Lions...
...Irwin Goldstein could hardly wait for the FDA to approve Viagra. The renowned Boston University urologist is so excited about last week's approval of the first-ever impotence pill for men that he is opening a new sexual-dysfunction clinic, and will soon begin prescribing the drug--for women...
...gardens, auditorium and art research institute and its uniquely manicured space dotted with fountains, is a cultural mecca. Roughly hewn stones unify the five museum buildings, while the Central Garden's zigzag path leads to a floating maze of azaleas beneath a waterfall. Designed by noted landscape architect Robert Irwin, the elegance of the Central Garden is matched in the stark beauty of the cacti on the South Promontory, inaccessibly placed so that they their spiked, vertical forms resonate with the skyscrapers visible on Wilshire Boulevard and in the distant Center City...
...director Tina Landau's wondrous production for Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre is a magical mystery tour, packed with inventive sound and lighting effects, that explores cosmic questions of mankind's place in the universe while staying grounded in the spiritual quest of one vulnerable man, played marvelously by Tom Irwin...