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...York City theater, where she's starred in "Uncle Vanya." Indie filmmakers love her too; she can currently be seen in Terence Davies' adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth." And she has a nice little cult following owing to her role as sexual-revolution poster girl Mary Ann Singleton in two "Tales of the City" miniseries (a third will air this year on Showtime). But in her major movies, she's been upstaged by her male costars: "Truman"'s Carrey, "Absolute Power"'s Clint Eastwood, "Primal Fear"'s Richard Gere and "Congo"'s primal brutes...
...latest poster child for dotcom misery, in case you're still keeping score at home, is eToys. Since the Grinch stole its Christmas season, it has been hunting for a buyer or a merger partner--anything to avoid bankruptcy. Employees are bracing for layoffs as the site unloads toys like Sing 'N Strum Barneys and Talking Wimzies for as much as 75% off. And the stock? Down from a 52-week high of $31.50 to about 20[cents]. Some folks have been taking perverse pleasure in seeing the dotcoms crash and burn. "Is anyone else morbidly watching this stock like...
...bank. Well aware that he was that old story--a white boy disproportionately rewarded for mastering a black art form--he earned critical cred with brilliant, gymnastic rhymes. But his lyrics, dripping with hate for women and gays, made parents reel, gave pop-culture-bashing pols a poster boy and posed critics a conundrum: Where does new-school rebellion stop and old-school bigotry begin...
...commission sets strict guidelines about where candidates can poster and how many posters a candidate...
...athletic glories of the year were all but buried by news from beyond the bleachers. Performance-enhancing drugs tarred the Sydney Olympics; free-agent baseball player Alex Rodriguez became the poster boy for greed when he reportedly demanded private jets and personal flacks in negotiations with the New York Mets; pro-basketball star Allen Iverson was called on the carpet by the NBA commissioner for misogynist imagery in his new hip-hop release; and football player Rae Carruth faced a real rap: he's on trial for ordering the murder of his girlfriend. For all the murk, some splendid performances...