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...Stardom proves no cinch for Tracy. The school authorities declare that our heroine's hairdo is a "hair-don't" and exile her to the special ed class. She and Link Larkin, her "common-law boyfriend," are ostracized from their keen teen group. Her best friend, Penny Pingleton, is denounced as a "checkerboard chick" for dating a black student. True to its early-60s milieu, the film climaxes in demonstrations, violent disputes, jail time for the civil-rights marchers. And (this is a fantasy, folks) they danced happily ever after...
...show who were even dumber, uglier and more deranged than the people who watched it.) But the show's producer, Velma Von Tussle (Linda Hart), insists on keeping the cast prim and pretty, with her blond daughter Amber (Laura Bell Bundy) as the Shrewish American Princess and hunky Link Larkin (Matthew Morrison) as her consort...
...Soon Tracy is the most popular gal on the dance floor. Wait a minute, Amber thinks, that's my job, and squalls, with a lovely petulance, "Everybody, stop liking her!" But everybody can't stop. Link, the divoonest guy in town, feels a strange urge to be with the fat girl. Even Edna is impressed by Tracy's new radiance: "If I'd known you were gonna get on the show, I never woulda said don't do it." Tracy also gets endorsements. At Mr. Pinky's Hefty Hideaway, Mr. P. wants Tracy to be the shop's "exclusive spokesperson...
...told the court. "I do as I please." Bensaïd no longer does as he pleases. He and Belkacem were convicted in 1999 on lesser charges related to the same French terror campaign - conducted by the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (G.I.A.), an Islamist organization with reputed al-Qaeda-links that has waged war against the Algerian government since 1992. Both have admitted G.I.A. membership; Belkacem is serving a 10-year sentence, and Bensaïd 10- and 30-year terms. But the men provide more than an example of callous disregard for life. They offer a glimpse of what...
...aside from watching them on prison TV. On Sept. 18 Interpol arrested Abu Salem in Lisbon, and earlier this month a New Delhi court issued a non-bailable warrant charging him with running a crime syndicate. Oh, and the U.S. government wants to chat with him about his possible link to al-Qaeda...