Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York City resident, Rudd may soon find a walk in the park to be more like a fan frenzy. Already idolized by millions of female Clueless fans, Rudd is soon to be a universally household name. With his role as Alicia Silverstone's brotherly beau in Clueless, his romantic lead in Ballyhoo, and now his star turn opposite Jennifer Anniston in The Object of My Affection, Rudd proves that, even in Hollywood, sometimes nice guys finish first...
...that has been the playwright's home for the past two months. A TV set, perched uncertainly on a table in the corner, flickers soundlessly. When not at rehearsals, the London native has been giving himself a crash course in American TV. Tops on his list of discoveries: South Park and the fights on Jerry Springer...
...Alice Park...
...preserve the 1.5 million-sq-km area of Brazilian savanna known as the cerrado. (The less than $1-an-acre budget shows how badly outmatched many environmental actions still are.) The cerrado is one of the world's most diverse swaths of nature, a kind of National Geographic theme park where howler monkeys and hyacinth macaws dance and sing from buriti palms and vast treeless grasslands. But in the past 30 years, more than half its original vegetation has been chewed away--and almost 75% will be gone...
...implement the process," says Mitraud, as she hurries to another meeting in Alto Paraiso. "If within five years I don't feel like I can leave here, then we've failed." But Mitraud's evangelism seems to be taking root. Says Irani Avelino Nascimento, an unemployed quartz miner turned park guide: "Before, I abused the environment and got little out of it," he says. "Now I respect it and earn a better wage. It's nice to think that we have a future...