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Stuff like Machu Picchu. And Antarctica...
...script embroiled in an intercultural tussle involving extraterrestrials and ancient monuments. (No, Steven Spielberg is not the producer.) The project is Out on a Limb, a five-hour ABC mini-series for November based on her 1983 autobiography of the same title. Citing passages where MacLaine suggests that Machu Picchu and the giant desert drawings known as the Nazca Lines were made by visitors from outer space rather than by the Peruvians, the National Institute of Culture accused her of inadvertently aiding "neo-Nazism" to discredit the country's culture. MacLaine was dismayed. During filming, locals took to calling...
...great tradition of buddy movies, Guevara and Granado spend as much time arguing as they do hugging, and it's a joy to watch. No doubt it's their kinetic relationship - a little Easy Rider, a touch Butch and Sundance - as much as the stunning scenery (Machu Picchu, the Andes, the Amazon) and the sociopolitical undercurrent that made The Motorcycle Diaries a hit at Sundance and Cannes and has insiders whispering about an Oscar nomination. The film has already made almost $5 million in Brazil, Italy and Argentina (not bad for a film that cost less than $10 million...
...record show that I love my work and that my children are charming, healthy teenagers. But the three-way balance among work, family and the nonjob, nonkid stuff that provides much of the spice of life--what ever happened to my tennis game or the trip to Machu Picchu?--is nothing like what my wife and I imagined it would be. It's not just women who are disappointed that modern life has not accommodated their various needs. So are millions of baby-boomer men who wanted their marriage to be a genuine partnership of equals...
...findings will come as a blow to mystics and UFOlogists like Shirley MacLaine, who famously claimed to have had an out-of-body experience on Machu Picchu. But even the truest believers will have time to get used to the idea. An exhibition of 420 Incan artifacts--354 of them from Machu Picchu--curated by Burger and Salazar, opened last month at Yale's Peabody Museum, where it will remain until May 4. Then it begins a two-year tour of Los Angeles; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Denver; Houston; and Chicago. The exhibit makes for riveting history--even...