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...been slapped with a $1.2 million paternity suit by his live-in girlfriend. (He reacted to her charges with a press release saying he had been shocked to discover she was an ex-stripper, and that all she had left him were "heart palpitations, a small box of memorabilia and a red G-string.") Looper was not considered a serious contender against Burks...
Most of all, Boston in the fall exudes a sense of history. In addition to the Old North Church, Old North Bridge, Boston Common and other revolutionary war memorabilia, the history of Boston encompasses the city's social and cultural influences. The mills of Lowell, the delicious Italian aromas of the North End, the blocks of Irish pubs of South Boston, noodles galore in Chinatown and the fish markets of Fanueil Hall all testify to the varied waves of immigrants and newcomers who have left their mark on Beantown...
...come to know each of them personally and calls them in at will to guide her in her work. The spirits began visiting her a few years ago, shortly after she bought the property records of various plantations at a Sotheby's auction. A collector of slave memorabilia, Winfrey cherishes the slave papers because these documents serve as the best vessel for connecting her--through name, age and price--to the real human legacy of slavery. While filming Beloved, she kept the slave inventory in her trailer on the set. She dedicated scenes to individual slaves by lighting a candle...
Scott does almost all her collecting these days on an auction site called eBay. A sort of digital swap meet, the service allows users to sell and bid for antiques and junk of all kinds--old milk bottles, vintage postcards--even U.S. Grant memorabilia. "I've tripled my collection in two years," says Scott, who has amassed nearly 8,000 items, including a $4,500 signed letter and a $20 embossed pillowcase...
...Waters of Peace" program that aims to locate ecologically threatening wrecks left under the sea. "We conceived this operation as a way to carry on Cousteau's work and philosophy," she says, sitting in the Captain's former office in Paris surrounded by diving helmets, Greek amphoras and other memorabilia...