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...That Africa, and a great deal else, is resplendent in When We Were Kings (1996). The story of 1974's "Rumble in the Jungle" in then-Zaire is punctuated with the near-lyrical musings of George Plimpton and Norman Mailer (who covered the fight as sportswriters) and fleshed out with the black faces of a nation brought to life by the event and by Ali himself. It's a battle hymn and a history lesson...
Gehrels heads Spacewatch, Scotti's astronomy group and one of two such teams dedicated exclusively to the discovery of threatening "near-Earth objects" (NEOs). The other group, called NEAT (for near-Earth asteroid tracking), is run by Helin and uses an Air Force telescope atop a mountain on Maui, Hawaii...
...have been a nightmare without John." After three years of work, they're so close and eat so many meals together that Franken knows what to order for Markus and how to tease out his life story ("John, tell how you enrolled at Stanford because you thought it was near Hollywood"). To perfect the new show's details, Markus and Franken became flies on the wall at Nightline. "It's amazing how much access you can get when you bring a dozen cappuccinos and a box of muffins," says Franken...
Here's how the world has turned: the new movie version of Lolita is at this moment playing without any particular controversy in Moscow, former capital of hopelessly square Soviet socialist morality. After something like a year of relentless salesmanship, producers of Adrian Lyne's near reverent (but by no means inept or exploitative) adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's modernist classic has yet to find a theatrical distributor in the U.S., where, of course, morally ambivalent entanglements between older men and younger women have lately been hot news...
DIED. BEATRICE WOOD, 105, ceramist and bon vivant, whose affairs with early 20th century artists and writers earned her the name "Mama of Dada"; near Ojai, Calif. Wood, who credited her longevity to "chocolate and young men," also inspired the character of Rose in the film Titanic...