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...gain respect is to act. To act continuously. After all, look at the track record--she's told us many times that she was the "it" girl at her high school who all the girls worshipped, she's never gone six months without a boyfriend in her life, and she nabbed an Oscar at the ripe old age of 26. Harvey Weinstein, Miramax president, swoons over his proclaimed "Muse"--she's "beautiful," "talented," and "respected," he says, and the world nods in agreement. But how much of it is real--and how much is hallucination caused by that lack...
...Howard Stern and his wife of 21 years (!) separated this week, and both of them seem pretty crushed by it. But you have to wonder if Alison Stern--who put up with her husband's insults, revelations about their sex life, and often indefensible barbs--finally cracked under the strain. You also have to wonder if Stern will be able to get back his irreverence any time in the near future...Paula Cole's new album only sold 16,000 copies this past week. Where have all the Cole fans gone?...Matthew McConaughey was arrested for marijuana possession early this...
...times. Faced with George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism," the religious right is on the defensive; its preoccupation with the sin of gayness seems increasingly extreme to ordinary people. This too is Matthew Shepard's legacy: in death, he served as vivid proof of the suffering that scars gay life in America. In this new climate, any evangelical might do well to lie low and preach tolerance. One good sign for Falwell: the Rev. Fred Phelps, the viciously homophobic Kansas preacher who picketed Shepard's funeral, stood outside the Lynchburg meeting with a small band carrying signs that read, "Jerry...
...over with the butt of a gun. In at a summit in Lynchburg, Jerry Falwell vowed to help keep such violence from ever occurring again. For Matthew Shepard, the minister's promise comes too late. But that promise--contradictory, halting, uncertain, well-intentioned and human--may someday help make life less terrifying for gays and lesbians in this vast country...
...heart failure, with mice that lacked the PLB gene. The resulting offspring did not develop heart failure. They also created mice carrying a defective form of PLB; in that experiment, the offspring produced by mating those mice with the mice bred to develop heart failure had a normal life span with no side effects, the researchers said. While there's no evidence yet of the gene in people, the team says that the finding could one day translate into a cure for human heart disease...