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NAME: Alec Baldwin AGE: 41 OCCUPATION: Actor/Clinton backer/would-be politician BEST PUNCH: During an appearance on the Rosie O'Donnell Show, denounced the New York Post as "the worst newspaper that was ever created in the history of journalism" and suggested that more legitimate news could be found in a Bazooka comic...
NAME: New York Post AGE: 198 OCCUPATION: Tabloid/Clinton basher/would-be political journal BEST PUNCH: In reporting the Baldwin rebuke, referred to him as "underemployed," "portly" and "pathetic"; two days later, ran an unflattering photo of him, left, under the headline FROM HUNKY TO CHUNKY...
...really blame the actors for the failure of a raft of screenwriters to provide them with even vaguely funny lines. They were doubtless too busy helping invent the film's visual effects, which most prominently include the gigantic mechanical tarantula with which Loveless hopes to induce a post-Civil War U.S. to surrender its sovereignty to him. But like men in frocks or the doctor's steam-driven wheelchair, it is just a sight gag--a one-shot deal out of which you cannot build intricately sustained comedy. The movie is loaded with this junk, but it has no authentic...
...Harare. Nkomo spent years fighting Britain and later White Rhodesia for independence. Despite Nkomo's leadership, his erstwhile ally Robert Mugabe became Prime Minister in 1980. A subsequent split led to bloody clashes that ended with a 1987 peace accord and Nkomo's appointment to a powerless vice-presidential post...
...GRANDPARENTS MATTER? You might have to put those post-retirement plans on hold. The Census Bureau reported last week that the number of grandparents living with and caring for grandchildren under 18 soared to 3.9 million in 1997, up 77% since 1970. More than 5% of all children live in such arrangements. The trend is attributed to rising divorce rates, teen pregnancy, child abuse and incarceration of parents...