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Digital goofing with old clips has given John Wayne and Fred Astaire the opportunity to sell Coors beer and Dirt Devil vacuum cleaners on TV despite being dead. A more disturbing prospect is represented by a film called Everything's George, which begins shooting this week. It will star George Burns, who is also dead but will nevertheless appear, as himself, with the blessing of his estate. "Five weeks after he died, we already had the rights," boasts producer Paul Greenberg. The screenplay posits Burns as a recent arrival in heaven, a Level One angel desperate to reunite with...
...TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak says Smaltz will have to win big in the courtroom ? that is, get the majority of his 39 indictments to stick. And that's a far-from-certain prospect. "This will be a D.C. trial, with a D.C. jury. They've got a very healthy skepticism of independent prosecutors," says Novak...
...That prospect spurred the U.S. government for the first time to slash fishing quotas for certain sharks in Atlantic waters in April. It also moved conservationists to put seven shark species on the IUCN-World Conservation Union's Red List of threatened species and prompted calls for even stricter safeguards for sharks before it's too late...
...Symphony 1997 take off so quickly? One reason is that it is both frankly romantic and immediately accessible--Beethoven's Ninth boldly recast for postmoderns, right down to the climactic anthem in which the children's choir sings ecstatically of the prospect of world peace. The work's user-friendly tone, Tan says, is no accident: "If you ask young people of today to listen to a 20-minute-long symphonic movement, nobody really has the patience to listen--not even me! This is why the symphony is in 13 short movements. It's like paragraphs: each section...
...most basic function of government is to secure the liberty and property of the governed, a government that can't even implement the rule of law is hardly worthy of the name. So, at least, writes Stephen Holmes in his American Prospect article "What Russia Teaches Us Now: How Weak States Threaten Freedom." New Yorkers like their persons and property to be secure. You can't argue with that. I didn't like getting mugged at gunpoint either. But the flip side is that a lot of people still haven't got any property to secure...