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...DIED. BUDDY HACKETT, 78, film funnyman who parlayed rotund homeliness into starring roles in The Music Man and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; in Malibu, California. In his later years, Hackett was rarely off the nightclub circuit but got occasional film parts, most notably as the voice of Scuttle the seagull in Disney's The Little Mermaid...
...most successful sports franchise in the world; Rupert Murdoch tried and failed to buy the club for $1 billion in 1998. With a worldwide fan base--in August, it's scheduled to play exhibition games before sold-out crowds in the U.S.--and enormous brand recognition in soccer-mad Asia, United has leveraged its stars to sell merchandise from Berlin to Bangkok. But in strict sporting terms, United is a lesser club than Real. Since the European club championship was inaugurated in 1956, United has won just twice. Real has lifted the trophy a record nine times. With Beckham...
...Notting Hill in 1999. Apparently acting on the theory that the whole is less than the sum of its parts, Redbook cut and pasted the two images to form a single, beautiful but inhuman Julia. (Cover line: THE REAL JULIA. Irony much?) Now the real real Julia is hopping mad. To restore journalistic integrity to the pictorial exploitation of celebrities, we present a photo of the total Julia. Doesn't she look fine in one piece...
...Death, which was always part of the subtext of Rowling's story, burst out into the open in the previous novel, and the atmosphere in Phoenix has darkened accordingly. Voldemort is back, and Hogwarts' sage headmaster Aldus Dumbledore has organized some of the wizarding world's heavy hitters--your Mad-Eye Moody, your Remus Lupin--into an informal league called the Order of the Phoenix to oppose the evil wizard and his followers...
DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK-ARTS TEACHER: Mad-Eye Moody--scarred, wooden legged and generally scary looking. But his secret identity is even scarier...