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Corporate welfare's burden on the American taxpayer is a widespread yet underinvestigated problem, as Don Barlett and Jim Steele learned during their 18-month investigation of the subject. Just how that burden chafes became even more evident to the prize winning journalists soon after their four-part series on the topic debuted two weeks ago. "We've received at least a dozen very substantial tips and examples from people around the country who are very passionate about this dilemma and felt no one else was listening," says Barlett. "It's a measure of how strongly people feel about this...
...have beautifully lit sex with heart surgeon Meg Ryan--and you have to admire the daring of a movie in which Meg Ryan playing a heart surgeon is not its most farfetched element. But both films pale in audacity next to What Dreams May Come, released last month to fair box-office returns and featuring Robin Williams as a doctor who dies and goes to heaven and then journeys to hell to rescue his wife. And yes, that makes a trend: unintentionally goofy metaphysical romances about death are the volcano movies...
...good thing Smithouser hasn't seen Jack Frost yet. In this film, to be released next month, neglectful father Michael Keaton dies and comes back as a snowman so he can spend some quality time with his son. Surely this too flies in the face of biblical truth--not to mention the song Frosty the Snowman. I just hope Jack will have something more interesting to say than my old man. But I doubt...
...most remarkable of that reporting and writing has been collected in a two-volume compendium called Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959-1969 and 1969-1975, published last month (Library of America; $35 per volume). To read from the beginning (the TIME story in 1959) to the war's end (Malcolm Browne's account in the New York Times of the fall of Saigon) is to relive the war in all its agony, heroism and, finally, failure...
...year-old billiards player was dropped from Japan's team for next month's Asian Games after he tested positive for a banned muscle-building drug. (Suggested co-star: Pat Morita...