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...marvel the weight of trouble a family can buoy you through. I like her best when she admits, "I would come home from the office some days and want to smash the laptop over his head," rather than read his manuscript over Indian food, as she often did, carefully excising references to herself. But I admire that she honored the "for worse" part of her vows instead of running to Oprah when the world came crashing down around her. She turned down all television offers. "I didn't owe anyone an explanation of who I am." She's barreled through...
...beach cottage on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where they ride dune buggies, hang-glide and walk on the beach. "We can play putt-putt while discussing biotechnology," Gates says. Winblad puts it more grandly. "We share our thoughts about the world and ourselves," she says. "And we marvel about how, as two young overachievers, we began a great adventure on the fringes of a little-known industry and it landed us at the center of an amazing universe...
...musicals and porno films, it's the big numbers -- here the rampaging action scenes -- that carry a Chan movie," notes TIME's Richard Corliss. So see Jackie on killer stilts, Jackie jumping from a high ledge, Jackie battling in an aquarium stocked with great white (rubber) sharks. See, and marvel, as he fights off a dozen or so angry Chinese men; his only weapons are a card table, some folding chairs and a metal ladder that becomes his own personal jungle gym. "Director Stanley Tong doesn't have quite the camera savvy of an ace Hollywood action auteur," notes Corliss...
There are other economic threats. Making and selling records is a $12 billion business. Three of the country's largest music chains have filed for bankruptcy in the past year and a half. The comic-book division of Marvel is firing a third of its work force; the company's stock has fallen 78% since March...
Cynics may reflect: there is no forgiveness for the marvel who writes a brilliant, successful novel, one of those rare, resonant tales that every literate soul burns to read. On pain of universal outrage and derision, the marvel's next book and all succeeding ones must be even grander than the first, and, while precisely the same, also boldly and completely different. Reviewers, who are in charge of outrage and derision--as well as words like resonant--will pout like rejected lovers at anything short of incandescence...