Word: mel
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...fact that the rest of us are not Matt Damon--have no Oscar, have never kissed Winona Ryder and are not making $7 million a movie--would be no more palatable even if we could put him in the "good-looking but short" box with, say, Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson...
Atrial fibrillation occurs when the smaller two chambers of the heart (the atria) contract faster than the two larger ones (the ventricles), causing an erratic but still viable flow of blood. "We don't know all the causes of atrial fibrillation," says Dr. Mel Scheinman, a professor of cardiology at the University of California at San Francisco, who is not involved in Bradley's care. "High blood pressure or coronary-artery disease may predispose patients to develop [the condition]." Other cases, like Bradley's, apparently, occur for no obvious reason...
...newly commissioned arrangement of "A Christmas Song," written by the late Mel Torme, was a touching, beautiful addition to the program. However, the highlight of the concert was certainly the musical arrangement of Dr. Seuss' Yuletide classic, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Narrated by Will LeBow, a local actor with the American Repertory Theatre as well as the voice of Stanley on the animated series, "Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist," the entire audience was chuckling with laughter remembering the childhood tale. The concert concluded with an audience sing-a-long to holiday standards such as "Jingle Bells," "Winter Wonderland" and "Rudolph...
...felt he had finished with tales about growing up in the city's Jewish neighborhood in the 1950s. But then an ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY review of his 1998 movie, Sphere, referred to Dustin Hoffman as a "noodgey and menschlike" Jewish psychologist. The racial stereotyping annoyed Levinson ("Nobody would say Mel Gibson was playing a Catholic industrialist in Ransom"), but it also got him thinking about his youth again. Rather than fume, he sat down and wrote for three straight weeks, imagining characters from his past talking about race, religion and class. "It wasn't writing," he says. "It was dictation...
...expulsions in its 177-year history. The minister of one of the expelled congregations told reporters she was "stunned" over the lack of dialogue preceding the vote. In Nebraska, however, there was a healthy debate both inside and outside the church in which the hearings took place. The Rev. Mel White, a California-based gay-rights activist, imported 100 protesters, who faced off outside the church with a flock led by peripatetic Kansas-based Baptist minister Fred Phelps, who's gaining a reputation as the nation's most vociferous anti-gay crusader. Inside, Creech told a panel of priests that...