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...remember from geography lessons, rubber is big in Malaysia. But there's a better way to appreciate it besides attending museums and tree-tapping demonstrations, and that's the Malaysian Grand Prix. Scheduled for April 8 at Kuala Lumpur's hyper-modern Sepang Circuit, the tire-scorching event is the second competition in this year's World Formula One Championship, which makes it all the more intriguing. If the much-vaunted first race in Melbourne on March 18 is where the kinks are discovered, then it's in the second race that the real drama begins to unfold. Will world...
...diploma so he could show it off at Christmas. And his parents threw him a graduation party at Shelbyville Community Church, where he landed not only about $350 in gifts, but also a promise from his dad to pick up half the car payments on Shawn's '99 Grand Prix GT. Even better was the fact that Shawn got hired to lay cable with his father and older brother, at a pay rate - $15 an hour - that was much higher than what his brother, who had dropped out of high school, had started at. With his diploma, he's also...
...Foufounes Electriques. Try not to notice that all of the students are back in class as you headbang to silence. In a shocking twist of fate, the city did not choose to host its International Fireworks Competition, International Jazz Festival, Just for Laughs Festival, International Film Festival, and Grand Prix in late January. However, one of Montreal’s 90 organized festivals is on during intersession, the famed La Fête des Neiges. Go to Parc Jean-Drapeau to watch the dogsled races in honor of Balto! He’s so brave! Before leaving the land of universal...
...Rochester in 1985, at 78. She had cultivated her legend, finding new adherents who treated her with the kind of awe she hadn't been granted in decades, and then only in bedrooms. But I'll give Lulu-Louise a tragic-happy ending. At the climax of the 1930 Prix de beaut?, she is a movie star sitting in a screening room about to watch the rushes of her big song. (It's the sad, teasing "Je n'ai qu'un Amour c'est Toi," and, in another 100th birthday present, is covered on the new CD by World Musette...
...blacklist. She had often expressed her contempt for Hollywood, and soon the town would return that sour flavor. She was always a handful, making enemies of the showgirls she worked with and, I suspect, having little control over the booze she loved. Augusto Genina, who directed her in Prix de beaut?, wrote in his memoirs that she drank all day and night and had to be carried on to the set. "She would have been the ultimate actress," he declared, "if it hadn't been for the alcohol...