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...just as dangerous as the drug lords Speedman's squad runs into. The actor's agent, Rick Peck (Matthew McConaughey, who nearly ambles away with the picture), worries mainly that his client hasn't been perked with TiVo. But Peck is a baby seal next to studio boss Les Grossman (deliciously played by Tom Cruise as a bald, grotesquely hairy Moloch), whose obscene phone calls usually include the threat to put something big of his into something small of the other fellow's. When Peck learns that Speedman has been captured by the bandits, he gets a little shiver...
MythBusters: Shark Special and Surviving Sharks Discovery, 9 p.m. E.T., July 27 & 28 MythBusters uses its second Shark Week special to test tips on how to survive a sea-critter attack. Then Survivorman's Les Stroud makes himself into human chum to explore ... exactly the same thing! Edge to MythBusters, which builds a cool mechanical great white. MythBusters: B- Surviving...
...capitalize on the scrapping of SALT II because of two basic advantages: active production lines for manufacturing ICBMs, strategic bombers and submarine-launched missiles; and the greater throw weight of Soviet missiles, which would allow them to be loaded up with many more warheads. House Armed Services Chairman Les Aspin says the Soviet production-line superiority would permit Soviet strategic forces to grow 65% by 1989, compared with 45% for the U.S. The House Foreign Relations Committee passed a resolution last week urging the President to adhere to the limits, and legislation has been introduced in both the House...
...team, and it showed. After some polite and tense foreplay, the Netherlands exploded in a sparkling offensive action on a corner kick that ended with Liverpool striker Dirk Kuyt scoring nine minutes in. The French struggled to survive the half, then came out after the interval ready for payback. Les Bleus pushed, shoved, sprinted, and fought to stay alive, but the Dutch would have none of it. Substitute Robin van Persie wound up on the winning end of a series of fast-break passes, the last from fellow sub Arjen Robben, to put Holland in command in the 59th minute...
...with what would have been its 60th anniversary falling this year, the 2CV is now a must-do tourist experience. In Clairmarais, a quiet town 45 minutes from Calais, Les Belles Échappées, www.les-belles-echappees.com, offers self-drive tours around the Nord and Flemish-tinged Pas-de-Calais regions...