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DIED. Claydes Charles Smith, 57, co-founder of the funk-pop band Kool & the Gang (once called the Jazziacs), whose monster hits of the '70s and '80s included Jungle Boogie, Joanna--which Smith wrote--and the now standard wedding anthem Celebration, which he co-wrote; after a long illness; in Maplewood...
...play a waitress in a movie called Tennessee. Were you afraid to act again after Glitter? I was honored Lee Daniels called me. He produced The Woodsman and Monster's Ball. He's a risk taker. Obviously it would be a risk in a lot of people's minds to cast me. But he never saw Glitter...
...Year honors for the sophomore. He boasted a microscopic 0.73 ERA in five regular-season Ivy decisions. But losses in games two and three forced a decisive finale in Hanover. After squandering several leads, the Crimson ran off the final 14 runs in a 23-9 triumph behind a monster effort from Klimkiewicz, returning to action from an elbow injury. “That’s the kind of team we’ve had most of the season,” Klimkiewicz said afterwards. “We play our best when we’re pushed...
...every big company is convinced, however, that the long tail is relevant for business. Microsoft, which relies on monster software hits like Office, "is clearly a short-tail development house," says the company's corporate standards director, Jason Matusow. He rejects the idea that the long tail--in this case, open-source software developers--poses a threat. "People say the long tail is the perfect way to look at open-source software and understand how it's going to save the world," Matusow says. "But with 400 million users, we're enabling the long tail...
...work in the house. Tensions bubble between the Captain and Ofelia's weak mother, and especially the Captain and the housekeeper Mercedes (Maribel Verd?). These are two marvelous characters. She has a quiet ferocity to match her cunning, which makes her a splendid revolutionary heroine. He is the real monster of the story, with a sadism bred in him by his own soldier father, and a macho theatricality that makes him a great movie villain. López (who has played memorably creepy types in With a Friend Like Harry and Dirty Pretty Things) and Verd? (the sexy "older woman...