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...story involves a group of losers from various parts of the country who converge on Omaha, Neb., to participate in an interstate karaoke contest with a $5,000 grand prize. Throughout the film, there's a sense of dislocation: the characters are constantly on the go, traveling by bus, plane, and taxi; they've all lost hold of exactly where and who they are. Gwyneth Paltrow portrays a girlish Las Vegas showgirl (she wears pink tights and blue barrettes) who hits the road with a karaoke hustler played by Huey Lewis (yes, that Huey Lewis, as in the News). Paul...
RECOVERING. WARREN BUFFETT, 69, homespun multibillionaire; after colon surgery to remove noncancerous polyps; in Omaha, Neb. The operation was made public to prevent rumors that could have affected his company's share price...
...have a memory problem. I have an information-overload problem. Information flows from the Internet, the telephone, the fax, the TV, movies and books. But the cure is cheap and simple: Remember what's important, and forget the rest. JUDY HORAN Omaha...
Ford had been in charge of the camera unit at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, his mission to film the Operation Overlord invasion that landed 176,000 Allied soldiers on the beaches of Normandy for the massive assault against the Germans occupying France. Yet somehow Ford's footage was lost until 1998, when Melvyn R. Paisley, a World War II aviator and Reagan-era Assistant Secretary of the Navy, found a few canisters of the missing film deep within the National Archives. Spielberg, whose father had also served in the U.S. Army Air Corps and who would...
Among the tales of battlefield duty behind a lens are those told by Don Honeyman, who captured the liberation of Manila; Dick Taylor, who filmed Americans being mowed down on Omaha Beach on the first day of the invasion; and Norman Hatch, whose footage proved the authenticity of Joe Rosenthal's famous photo of U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima...