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...consult on changes with author J.K. Rowling (who's usually quite agreeable); appease every kid who has read, memorized and worshipped the book; put Goblet's 734-page bulk on a severe diet that slimmed the plot without starving it; find a strong narrative line that, as director Mike Newell says, you can "hang stuff on like a necklace"; and make a movie that fit into the seven-novel structure but could stand alone as a ripping yarn. "Goblet of Fire was by far the most difficult thing I've ever done in my life," says screenwriter Steve Kloves...
BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD THE MIKE JUDGE COLLECTION, VOL. 1 MTV sells a dream: coolness and popularity. Creator Judge's Beavis was the antidream, embodied in two MTV-watching cretins with a taste for dirty jokes ("Heh heh heh. You said unit"). The cartoons--40 of them selected here--satirized '90s teen culture while snidely trashing music videos. TV rarely critiques itself with such pith. Heh heh heh. I said pith...
...DIED. MIKE AUSTIN, 95, golfer who slammed a 515-yd. drive in a Las Vegas senior tournament in 1974, setting a record for the longest drive in a pro-golf tournament; in Los Angeles. Despite dramatic advances in club technology, his feat, accomplished at 64, still holds...
...stretch, and 2:24 of it saw the Saints hold a 5-on-3 advantage. And later, as the frame wound down, St. Lawrence got another 16 seconds of 5-on-3 sandwiched between a Charlie Johnson holding call and a minor for tripping—Mike Taylor served it for Tobe—that carried over into the third. “Most of the night,” Donato admitted, “we played not only [St. Lawrence], but the guys in black and white.” In 15:10 of man-advantage time, the Saints...
...Putting together a trunk show of hits from a composer or group is a matter of choosing from among three options: a pastiche of tunes (as in Smokey Joe's Cafe from the Mike Leiber-Jerry Stoller songbook, the Billy Joel Movin' Out or Swingin' On a Star from lyricist Jimmy McHugh); a new book that finds slots for the songs (as in the ABBA Mamma Mia!, the Elvis All Shook Up or the Gershwin's My One and Only and Crazy for You); or a bio-musical of the artist (the Buddy Holly tribute Buddy or Hank Williams...