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...Manser put on his brother Peter's wedding suit, found a briefcase and had his hair cut again. This time, he managed to make it into Kuching without being stopped and, on March 29, 1999, he flew over the city carrying a symbolic lamb he had knitted as a peace offering to the Chief Minister. (His original plan to bring a live lamb from Switzerland was aborted when Singapore Airlines refused to give the animal passage. There were also objections from animal rights activists among his friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Without a Trace | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...leather pants. The Rolling Stones are contemplating another world tour. Attention readers and potential ticket buyers: Mick Jagger is older than George W. Bush. Do you really want to see him strutting his emaciated self across the stage? Like Madonna, he's another example of mutton-dressed-up-as-lamb. The Stones and the Who and Aerosmith - even U2, for that matter - don't so much reinvent themselves as become Madame Tussaud figures of themselves. And like those wax figures, the Stones look so eerily alive. Except for Bill Wyman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why I'm Tired of Madonna — and All the Other Geezer Rockers | 7/27/2001 | See Source »

...nice Joe--"honest, thrifty, methodical, sober, upright and really kinda dull," as he says of himself in Phffft!--getting wooed by prime kooky blonds Judy Holliday and Kim Novak. With Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment and Irma la Douce, he was the shy gent pursuing a knowing woman, the lamb trying to persuade himself to be a wolf. But the Lemmon male was more in control when surrounded by men. From early service comedies like Mister Roberts through all the films in which he played Nellie to Walter Matthau's Butch (The Fortune Cookie, the Odd Couple, the Grumpy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clown Prince: JACK LEMMON (1925-2001) | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...ridiculousness of his situation, he nonetheless cannot do anything about it. He remembers "lying frozen, crying because I was too frightened to take a shower, and at the same time knowing that showers are not scary." He is "defeated by the difficulty of getting a piece of lamb chop onto my fork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Casting Out the Demons | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...tired to go out to dinner? Now there's a restaurant just for you. At such eateries as the Pig 'N Whistle in Hollywood and Beverages, Entertainment & Dining in Miami, tables and chairs have been replaced with comfy, oversize beds, where diners can nibble their lamb chops or salmon tartare from a tray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dinner In Bed | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

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