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Robert De Niro plays Walt Koontz, an almost parodistically macho security guard, who is felled by a stroke as he tries to prevent a robbery in his New York City apartment building. As part of his therapy he requires singing lessons to help him remobilize his frozen vocal cords. Rusty (Philip Seymour Hoffman), his transvestite neighbor, is recruited to tutor him, while we settle down to await their inevitable bonding...
...sheep's clothing? What feminist author has been earning a fortune by advising Al Gore to be more macho...
...group, which Vaux formed with three other classmates in his undergrad days at the University of Chicago, has produced four major projects to date. "Columbian Inventions" (a collection of songs in honor/protest of Columbus Day), "Buster Crabbe" (celebrating the life of the actor who played Tarzan, Superman, and other macho characters in early movies), "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: The Twelve-Tone Rock Opera," "Liquid Dwarf, Rusty Dwarf" (an album boasting songs such as "Barbecue of Love" and "Petrified Vomit"), and "Petrified Barbecue" (greatest hits) all belong to the band's repertoire...
...woken up, so to speak, to the need for more adaptation. Doctors, he notes, enter residency programs expected to work 36 hours in two days, having been taught almost nothing about how to sleep during the day or how to use naps to offset the effects of exhaustion. "The macho thing is very significant," he says. "Those who have been living with this for so long believe that the people who did not make it were the wimps. Very often the only catalyst for change [in such environments] is an accident...
...opportunity to make a name for himself ahead of next year?s presidential election. "The war against Chechen terrorism is Putin?s election platform," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "And for the moment, it?s doing just what Kremlin image-makers had hoped ? boosting Putin?s macho image and his popularity in the polls...