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...Hollywood, all good things must come to an end--and then get spun off into something that's almost as good, but not quite. After Friends finishes its 10th and final season next year, NBC will launch a sitcom starring Joey Tribbiani, the lazy, lovable lunk played by MATT LEBLANC. (What, Gunther wasn't available?) The new show will premiere in the fall of 2004 in that same old comfy Friends time slot, Thursdays at 8 p.m. E.T. Joey won't be going on his own: the three executive producers who created Friends will be there...
READ MY LIPS, being French, is wryer and dryer. A mousy, overworked executive secretary (Emmanuelle Devos) is given permission to hire a trainee-assistant. She chooses a newly paroled con (Vincent Cassel), a hunky lunk, but observant enough to divine her well-kept secret, which is that she is virtually deaf. She covers this defect by being an expert lip-reader. Now, this is a skill a bad guy can use. Soon she's perched on a rooftop, peering through binoculars, learning the secrets of a criminal gang whose ill-gotten gains he plans to heist. The comedic first part...
...character study and virtuoso acting class masquerading as a violent melodrama--he is played by Sylvester Stallone. This time Hollywood's longest lived action star is not battling Apollo Creed or the Vietnamese or a killer mountain, but his own rep as a stolid, vaguely comic, pre-Modernist hunk-lunk. Freddy is surrounded by guys who think they're men because they carry guns in the big city. But Sly is crowded too--by an intimidating gang of quality thesps, including Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta. They've been doing the heavy acting while he's been...
Perhaps now the astronomers and other "pure" scientists will stop whining about how manned space flight is stealing all the money from real science. Why? Because last week man -- that clunky, bulky, heaving, breathing space lunk -- saved Hubble. And Hubble, the $1.6 billion orbiting telescope, is the kind of robot observer that scientists like to claim is the real way to explore space, far better than the clumsy Spam-in-a-can bipeds we periodically and extravagantly hurl into orbit. Well, now that man has done this for the robots, it is time for the robots and their human advocates...
...story began at the U.S. swim trials a month before, where John Moffet, accustomed to trailing home behind Veteran Steve Lundquist in the 100-meter breaststroke, not only beat the blond, gorgeously muscled Lunk, as Lundquist is called, but set a world record of 1:02.13. At the prelims on the first morning of Olympic competition, Moffet qualified fastest, in Olympic-record time. But four strokes into the second 50, he felt a muscle let go in his right thigh. Hours later, after a shot of Xylocaine, he swam the final in pain and managed a fifth place...