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...student productions. After graduation, he headed to University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television to study moviemaking. While he waited for his big directorial break, he began to write B-movie horror flicks, including the little-remembered “Humanoids from the Deep.” His pet projects, though, were his historically-themed screenplays.“Everyone who’d look at them would tell me, ‘You ought to write a novel,’” Martin says...
After a half an hour, we have yet to see any real dessert. Chocolate fulfillment is only further prolonged by the appearance of Chef Le Pet Omaine, our eccentric guide. This off-the-wall stereotype-a-minute French chef—complete with wild gesticulations and exclamations of “phooey” delivered in his faux-French accent—causes the crowd of British tourists and local foodies to guffaw and titter. The march through Prudential Center to the Top of the Hub with Chef Le Pet Omaine waving his wooden ladle at the front...
After writing about plants in her acclaimed book, The Orchid Thief, Orlean has moved on to animals, penning a piece on Keiko, the whale from Free Willy, for the New Yorker. She also interviewed a woman in New Jersey who kept close to 30 pet tigers. “People have an appetite for exotic things—it’s kind of an enduring issue in human nature.” Both accounts are collected in her new book, Homewrecker: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere, which will come out in November...
Hueston, basing his argument on the difficult European experience in stopping the recycling of animal feed, said he still supports IRS recommendations to ban risky materials, such as brain and spinal cord tissue, from animal feed and pet food...
...take on complex peacekeeping and nation-building missions, the Bush administration cannot afford to shortchange American servicepeople. And lawmakers shouldn’t give Bush the chance. House and Senate Republicans should show some uncharacteristic backbone and prevent the Bush administration from wasting this spending increase on Pentagon pet projects and hi-tech fighter programs that are for the most part useless in the fight against terror. Earmarking the money for salaries instead of fattening an already bloated weapons budget would make a bad budget a little bit better...