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...were walking along the esplanade that rings the crunchy, white sand of the central playa, where 45,000 people materialize, suddenly, every August to construct huge metal sculptures, geodesic domes, mobile dragons that shoot real flames and other art installations that, well, wouldn't be possible anywhere else. Here in the Black Rock desert, a sandstorm caused a white out last Monday and again on Saturday, but on this day, it was clear and windless. Irving, bare-chested beneath a rainbow-colored vest, and a straw pith helmet festooned with a lei of red, purple, blue and yellow silk flowers...
...Coming to America” (no, for real).And maybe, like this viewer, he just wanted—no, needed—to watch R. Kelly earnestly tell the camera, “If you’re looking for some good sex, holla at a playa.” Hilarious! Not great; good. You’d be crazy to expect anything else. —Jake G. Cohen
Just because a guy is frugal, bespectacled and leery of tech stocks doesn't mean he isn't a playa. WARREN BUFFETT, 76, the world's second-richest man, just married ASTRID MENKS, 60, at his daughter's Omaha, Neb., home. That's no big surprise: they have been together for decades. The odd thing is Buffett was married to his first wife until her death in 2004, and she approved of his relationship with Menks (she introduced them). After the 15-min. civil ceremony, the wedding party dined at a seafood place. And, since...
...puzzle to which Okrent refers is one Reagle constructed for the film. The theme is Word Play, and it uses the key words hidden in new configurations: word in "neW ORDers" and "cross sWORDs," play in "PLAYa Del Mar" and "toP LAYers." We see Reagle creating the puzzle, then Shortz accepting it and finally Clinton, Stewart, Burns, Okrent and Indigo Girls solving it. The first clue is "Warhead weapon," four letters. Stewart and Burns jump on ICBM, while Clinton, who's been in charge of these things, says, "it's gotta be an ICBM or a MIRV." As the theme...
With a sure-to-be blockbuster movie opening in two weeks, and fiancée Katie Holmes’s figurative cup having, literally, just runneth over with baby, there is no better time to revisit the masterworks of the one-and-only, Brooke Shields playa hatin’, Oprah-couch-jumpin’, scientology-crazed Tom Cruise. So grab the first installment of the “Mission: Impossible” (1996) franchise, sit back, and… TAKE A SHOT: 1. Every time someone is either obviously wearing, or proceeds to remove, an identity-changing mask. Look into...