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...time for acting. (She's got four films in the can, so one wonders how much more time she'll need.) As for Murphy, who beat out Gwyneth Paltrow for the job, this marks her return to modeling. A cover girl for American, British, French and Italian Vogue, she quit the life and moved to Costa Rica, where she met her chef husband; they now live in New York City with their baby girl. Carolyn probably has a few good years left...
...that's just part of the story. The tale could have ended like this: it was 1987 and Dylan was about to embark on a tour with the Grateful Dead when he decided to quit the music business. At that point, he had been mailing in his performances for years; he had even hired backup singers to distract audiences from the tired ruin of his voice. He couldn't even remember the lyrics to his best, most challenging songs, like Desolation Row and Queen Jane Approximately; what's more, he didn't want to remember them. "I'd become...
...pain, and it seems to me that I have been picking potatoes in one form or another ever since. The boss man, Mr. Marse, kept telling me that potato picking is a great challenge and a boon to civilization and the manly thing to do and that if I quit working, my life would lose purpose and meaning and I would be unable to bear the shame...
GRAY DAVIS Calif. Gov finally takes stand on Gary Condit; saves two salaries when Condit kids quit his staff...
Mexico's northern-border commissioner, Ernesto Ruffo, argues that the time has come to end the "us-vs.-them" talk. Says he: "If we'd quit speaking in Spanish and in English and speak the language of economics, we'd end up understanding each other much better." Fox speaks that language (plus English) well. Only three months away from marking his first year in office, he is trying to cool expectations at home. "The country's fate doesn't rest on a President," he said last week as he urged Mexicans to go beyond their traditional fixation on the leader...