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Chocolat is the story of a smug, sleepy town invaded by a charismatic outsider who feeds the villagers sweets and makes them do crazy things. To speak metaphorically, the town is Los Angeles; the outsider is Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein; and what could be nuttier than voting Chocolat a nomination for the year's best film? The movie is at best a trifle, and at most a tribute to Weinstein, a man who knows that Hollywood is the art of the sell. He can feed the Academy voters anything and have them say Mmm-mmm, good...
...which last week had fallen as much as 10% from its high, could fall further and seriously set back anyone who plows in a pile of money now. But a happy irony of the stock market is that the nuttier it gets, the more you can make by sticking to a regimen of investing a set amount at regular intervals, as most folks do with their 401(k)s or other automatic-investment accounts. That's right: when stock prices fly up and down in dramatic fashion, it's to your advantage. The hard part is gutting out those unnerving...
...violent sexual act." Sandra Hale, head of the gay rights group Pride, said that was an "insult" to rape and molestation victims, as well as lesbians, gays and bisexuals. "Al Bishop is kind of a wacko," says TIME Montana reporter Patrick Dawson. "As he gets older, he just gets nuttier...
...action, and there is virtually none, for this is a Chekhovian mood piece, takes place in a mental home. There are no acute aberrations. The place is no nuttier than the world, or life. Richardson and Gielgud are two men who stand on the crumbling threshold of old age, all passion spent, memories distant but present, vivid yet garbled. For them, every dawn is dusk, and every dusk is darkened with the knowledge of imminent death...
Opera singers, like athletes, are nuts for conditioning-only nuttier. Where Mickey Mantle may shag a few fly balls, Baritone Robert Merrill stands on his head. Where Mickey Wright will hit a few off the practice tee, Mezzo-Soprano Rosalind Elias gargles champagne and does a belly dance. And for a preperformance pick-me-up, singers will have none of that sissy business of pep talks. They eat garlic...