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CALLING ALL CHOCOHOLICS You can get over it. For years, researchers have suspected that a hankering for Hershey's comes from the desire--especially among women--for certain chemicals found in chocolate, some even said to mimic the brain chemistry of a person in love. Not so, finds a new study. It turns out that U.S. women lust for chocolate twice as much as Spanish women do, suggesting that craving chocolate is a learned behavior--and can be unlearned...
...Stone's aptly named Illusion Entertainment Group but also of Michael Davies, who became an entertainment executive at ABC in January. A native Brit, Davies loves the Fox network's hit reality specials, such as When Animals Attack and World's Scariest Police Chases. He came to ABC to mimic and improve on them. "If Fox did When Animals Attack," he told Electronic Media magazine earlier this year, "I want to do Why Animals Attack...
...Here what shined through in Shaham's playing was his love of music, his ability to capture the fun-loving spirit of the music: rocking back and forth on his heels in time to the honky-tonk rhythms of the piece, smiling as he cheekily "strummed" his violin to mimic the drunken ukelele player, Shaham clearly showed he was having a great time...
...reprising an infamous character so strongly identified with another actor. "There were some things I did as a tribute to Anthony," says Vaughn, whose larger frame gives him some physical distance from the gaunt Perkins. "I liked what he did with stuttering and body language, but I didn't mimic him completely. It would have been insulting." Van Sant says he chose Vaughn for his ordinary yet edgy demeanor--"that ability to snap...
...suffers from a thyroid disorder that is severe enough to cause problems but has never been diagnosed. (Men also develop thyroid disease as they age, but at a much lower rate.) Why do doctors miss so many cases? Turns out that many symptoms associated with thyroid disorders mimic the signs of aging...