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...both ways. "I have to decide whether a person is right to direct me," she explains. She knew nothing of the legendary Allen secretiveness: how, for example, he won't let actors see his scripts, just the scenes in which they appear. Morton simply had to read Sweet and Lowdown before taking the part Allen offered her on her 21st birthday. "I was totally frank with him and said I'd been offered this other film," she says. "I said, 'Can I read the script?' and he said, 'Of course...
Morton knows a great part when she sees one. The fact that Sweet and Lowdown's Hattie utters not a single word--the character is mute--was far from a deterrent for the ordinarily motor-mouthed Morton, who delivers a magnetically expressive performance opposite Sean Penn. "Hattie's so full of stuff: How can I convey all that she's thinking?" she says. "Learning lines is the easiest thing in the world. This was the hardest part I've ever played...
HEART-STOPPING HIGH Everyone knows that getting high on cocaine isn't great for your health, but here's the lowdown on just how bad it really is. The odds of having a heart attack jump 24-fold during the first hour after taking the drug. That's true even for folks who don't seem to be at risk for heart disease. Apparently the white powder constricts coronary arteries and sends blood pressure soaring...
Major environmental organizations have well-organized, slickly produced websites that are worth a visit. Off the beaten cyberpath, however, are many colorful and sometimes quirky sites that show off the Web's greatest asset: its diversity. Here's the lowdown on some sites we liked...
...must know then that 24 hours earlier, I was getting the lowdown on her profession from two of New York's Finest. Over a late lunch at the Tick Tock Diner, Detective Ralph Aiello briefed me about his undercover work for Operation Crystal Ball, a crackdown on exploitative fortunetellers. "They're like vultures on the African plain," says Aiello. His boss, Lieutenant Robert Groth, in a sleek blue suit and crisp haircut, puts it simply: "They're professional con artists...