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Born in Minneapolis and raised in Los Angeles, he lapped up the best of midcentury America's comic culture: the visual surrealism of Ernie Kovacs' TV shows, the lunatic satire of Harvey Kurtzman's Mad and Humbug comic books. Yet even then there was a zealot budding in him. He planned to become a missionary, until he had what he laughingly terms an "anti-epiphany" one day at Disneyland. Smartly dressed, he was turned away from the theme park by security guards for having long hair. "Suddenly this place I'd adored seemed in my animator's imagination like...
...LIFT WEIGHTS, BUT CHEERLEADERS LIFT ATHLETES," she says proudly. The Euless squad practices four times a week, an hour and a half a night, with only Wednesday off for church. Every practice involves at least 100 crunches and "running lines" on a basketball court. "Sometimes they make you so mad," says Monica. If someone rolls her eyes, that adds a couple of laps of running. Drop a flyer while doing a stunt, and that's 25 push...
...England lake last summer, she has committed herself to praying as much as she can between schoolwork and other demands. Shea says she prays to make sense of her new, sharper emotions: "I'll pray, 'God, I don't know why I get so mad at my mom. Why am I being mean?'" Shea's father wants to pray about her problems together as a family, as they did when she was younger. Increasingly, though, Shea prays alone. "It's kind of hard to say the things I want to say to God out loud to my dad," she says...
...epic about ordinary people striving to be good in an indifferent world. Pulp Fiction 1994; Quentin Tarantino The most influential American movie of the '90s, for good and ill, this multipart crime epic is fully up to matching its cocksure ambition with its love of the medium and its mad pash for melodrama. The movie still has the impact of an Adrenalin shot to the heart. Talk To Her 2002; Pedro Almodovar At its simplest level, this transgressively witty film is about how a hospital orderly's sexual obsession achieves the unlikely awakening of a comatose woman. But there...
...longstanding American concerns about China's willingness to use force over Taiwan and the potential for nuclear escalation." Near the end of his comments last week, Zhu added that he was confident the U.S. and China would not go to war "unless the politicians of these two countries go mad." Keeping the generals in check might help...