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...bold enough to declare us not "good enough." Instead, they fill out mailboxes and answering machines with roundabout rejections: "Competition was especially tight" some tell us (wait, didn't you use that line last year?) or "We encourage you to reapply next year" (Thanks, but no thanks, sir or madam...
...format, once wore a dress to enliven the proceedings. The President hasn't gone that far--not quite. But who can forget his town meeting on MTV in 1993? "Boxers or briefs?" asked a budding Walter Lippmann in the studio audience. The President could have turned the question aside. "Madam," he might have said, "that is a private matter between me and my interns." Or better: "Young lady, I am the President of the United States, and you should be ashamed of yourself." But of course he did no such thing. He answered the question, looking, to his credit, suitably...
...taken the outside agitation of a publicity-seeking New York City legal expert--no, not Geraldo Rivera--to put the heaviest formal pressure on Boulder authorities. Attorney Darnay Hoffman (clients include Bernhard Goetz, the famed subway gunman; family members include wife Sidney Biddle Barrows, the famed "Mayflower Madam") has filed suit against district attorney Alex Hunter, charging--under an obscure Colorado statute that allows private citizens to question the actions of prosecutors--that Hunter has "unjustifiably refused" to charge Patsy Ramsey. Hoffman's evidence? Testimonials from four writing experts alleging it is probable the ransom note discovered when JonBenet...
...often that a director hears Madam, I am going to shoot you' after her film's premiere," recalled Mehta of Fire's opening in Trivandrum last spring. The Indian-Canadian director knew she was breaking taboos but had no idea how resistant her viewers would be. "In India, there is no word for the type of love Sita and Radha share," she explains, and the existence of homosexuality is mostly denied by conservatives. What bothers men most about the film, Mehta says, is not the homoerotic tendencies it unveils, but the empowerment it gives wives over their husbands-a shift...
...Before Yes, Madam," she says, "I didn't know any form of martial arts. But because I'd been dancing since I was four, I was active and limber. I also had a quick mind to pick up steps and stunts. I'd look and I'd copy." Putting her dance techniques in the service of movie surrealism, she executed entrechats so they'd puncture a bad guy's windpipe; in her plies, the knee went thwok! in a man's most vulnerable spot. "My stunt coordinators constantly tell me not to kick so high," she says...