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...into character is JIM CARREY going for Man in the Moon, the biopic on eccentric comedian ANDY KAUFMAN? "He's extraordinary," says Carol Kane, who plays herself in the film. Rumor has it that Carrey has asked for two trailers on the set, one for when he's playing Kaufman and one for when he's playing Kaufman's alter ego, Tony Clifton. Odd as this is, it's nothing on Kaufman. Apparently, when Kaufman was in character as the lizardly Clifton, he would eat food like red meat that the comic, who was a vegetarian, wouldn't normally touch...
With his exquisite, jeweled miniatures, Gunesekera bears the same relation to a Rushdie that, say, his tiny, teardrop island does to multifarious India. He favors elliptical, charged fragments that show drifters caught between the "flat, newly built motorways" of England, "empty as the moon itself," and an island they can sustain only in memory and illusion. "I know how to live with only a modem and a slip of plastic," says his wandering narrator at the end of this deeply melancholy and beautiful book, "but with each jolt I find I yearn for a story without...
GIRL IN THE MOON...
When NANSOOK HONG was 15, she was summoned to New York City to become the wife of the first son and heir of the REV. SUN MYUNG MOON and part of the Moonies' first family. Early one morning 14 years later, she fled the Moonie compound in a van in which her five children were hiding. In case all those mass weddings didn't tip us off that life as a Moonie is not very sunny, she has written a book, In the Shadow of the Moons, about her ordeal. Her husband, she says, who hadn't wanted to marry...
...further research and consumer awareness of the causes of food-borne disease. We've learned many painful lessons about today's volatile food-safety environment and hope our experience and stories like yours will help prevent another tragic outbreak. CHRISTOPHER C. GALLAGHER JR. Director of Communications Odwalla Inc. Half Moon Bay, Calif...