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...suppose you'll be wanting to know what it was really like in Europe in 1957 when, like Tom Ripley as played by Matt Damon, I arrived on the Queen Mary. I was there, of course, trying to find myself or, alternatively, someone who looked even remotely like Gwyneth Paltrow...
...that we put too much emphasis on computers at the expense of basics like reading and writing; high-techs argue that technology can enhance kids' learning experience without breaking school budgets. The documentary is up to PBS's usual high standards, and it's narrated--get this--by rapper Queen Latifah...
Susan Colgate and John Johnson are two former Hollywood luminaries, on the verge of becoming trivia questions, who share a history of disappearing. She, a faded sitcom actress and the erstwhile beauty queen of the title, once emerged unscathed from a plane crash, taking advantage of her freak escape to go into temporary hiding and watch coverage of her "death" on tabloid TV ("A small-town girl makes it big and then small again"). He, a producer of Bruckheimeresque action flicks (e.g., Bel Air PI) starring guns, aliens and lame one-liners, once walked away--literally--from his life...
...portrayed by Sir Anthony Hopkins in one of his most brilliant performances to date, stands at the center of the web of wrongdoing, symbolically represented in one of the film's most stirring scenes by a country crossroads. Although his act of sacrificially murdering the oldest son of Tamora Queen of the Goths (the passionate and powerful Jessica Lange) sets the plot of the piece in motion, he spends most of the play contemplating and acting on his understanding of the human capacity for evil. Certainly, he is not above revenge, but as the protagonist, he allows the audience...
...first to appear twice was Mrs. Herbert ("Lou") Hoover, and Queen Mary of England was the first to be pictured three times, but PRINCESS DIANA tops the list of women on TIME's cover, having turned up within the red border a grand total of nine times. Runner-up is a tie, with eight covers apiece for both the VIRGIN MARY and HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON (we aren't counting the tiny insert pics of Hillary on two Zippergate covers). But the race is not over. As Campaign 2000 bears down upon us, we would have...