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...trouble after he cracks a joke about South Korean dog eating. Other dog-eating nations?we won't name them?feel left out TIGER WOODS Golf pro owes $500,000 in Shenzen taxes, highest in the city?for two rounds of work. He might have to play a whole par 4 to pay that off JIMMY CARTER Ex-Prez loses out on Grammy for best spoken word album. Next move: auditioning for 'N Sync. Teens will know him as "the old, gross...
...Fred, like his movies, was nowhere when not dancing. In his films? long dialogue scenes, the actor Astaire seemed both stiff and fluttery, feckless - not superhuman, as he did in the big numbers, but sub-par. Indeed, that?s one thing that made his dances stand out: they were so much more suavely realized than the rest of the enterprise, and Astaire came truly alive only when he was in them. Kelly, a believer in artistic integration, gave just as much attention to "the rest of the movie." He acted-danced with the same concentrated energy that he danced-acted...
Texas Rangers reliever John Rocker will soon star in a low-budget movie “The Greenskeeper,” a low-budget flick about a slasher-killer at a golf club (“It’s Par For The Corpse,” the movie’s website raves). Better known for his earlier work as “The Bigot” in a 1999 Sports Illustrated interview in which he made derogatory comments about blacks, foreigners, homosexuals and the city of New York, Rocker appears at least somewhat...
...posthumous release of an artist’s work is an inherently thorny enterprise. It is a tradition that began with Virgil, the Roman poet par excellence, who took ill before he could finish his masterpiece, the Aeneid, and on his deathbed consigned it to flames so that it would not be published without his finishing touches. Western civilization has Augustus to thank for saving the Aeneid from this fiery fate. Countermanding Virgil’s request, he had the poem edited and published against the dead poet’s wishes. The emperor’s motives, however, were...
...found in the fairy tales, musical numbers and creative architecture of the Magic Kingdom. A close observation of other tourists counts for Social Analysis and a well thought-out argument for a refund at Guest Relations warrants Moral Reasoning credit. Disney World even has its own special language, on par with Harvard’s unique lingo. While Harvard features “TFs” instead of “TAs,” “concentrations” instead of “majors,” and “proctors?...