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Ever since the Coreys--Haim and Feldman--stopped getting arrested and started their world domination of the straight-to-video shelf, there's been a profound lack of screwed-up teen heartthrobs. But BRAD RENFRO, 18, appears ready to step up. Last week Renfro, who made his debut in The Client in 1994 and has since starred in Sleepers and Apt Pupil, was charged with grand theft after he and an accomplice allegedly tried to steal a 45-ft. yacht from a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., marina. They might have got away with it had they only untied the dock lines...
...Lawrence Outside the Walls. They descended to the 6th century cathedral's crypt and were led to a white stone tomb. A casket was opened for them. At this point, wrote Monsignor Carlo Liberati of the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints, "there was a moment of profound and intense commotion." The body within, that of 19th century Pope Pius IX, was "almost perfectly conserved." Pius, known universally in Rome as Pio Nono, died in 1878. Yet here he was "in the beauty of his humanity, just as he is seen in the photographic documentation" of his deathbed...
...been a good week for American Jewry. Freedman recalls stories his mother used to tell of Bess Myerson's selection as Miss America, "how thrilled they were that a Jewish girl was seen as pretty enough to be chosen. In a more profound way, this touches the same chords." But to those familiar with Judaism's internal fault lines there is an irony in Al Gore's embrace of--and America's fascination with--Joe Lieberman's style of observance. For decades, Modern Orthodoxy has taken a drubbing from its left and its right. Many were convinced it was doomed...
...effect can be quite profound. I know. I grew up in a home much like Lieberman's. We too did not use electrical devices on the Sabbath. As a result, when we sat down to the last Sabbath meal toward the end of the day, we relied for illumination on light from the windows. As the day waned, the light began to die. When it came time for the Hebrew recitation (three times) of the 23rd Psalm, there was so little light that I could no longer read. I had to follow the words of my father as he chanted...
...political expertise. The august Ms. Brinkley sputtered that Al Gore should run two ads a day demanding regular debates from George W. Bush, who is "trying to cheat the American people" of political dialogue. Claire Shipman, in the best line of the night, dryly thanked her for her "very profound - yet simple - political advice." Later, Cher, endorsing Al Gore on "Larry King Live," said "I'm not speaking out as a star... I'm speaking out as an American." (Honey, if you feel the need to say that - you're speaking out as a star...