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...disc set Max Allan Collins' Black Box). "I think he's a phenomenon in regard to the whole explosion of the mass-market paperback, and was probably its first great star." Spillane's popularity spawned a generation of tough-guy, "paperback-original" novelists - Jim Thompson, Charles Williams and a raft of others whose works were filmed by the French New Wave directors...
...recent weeks the House leadership has bypassed a raft of issues aimed at building support among suburban voters in favor of pushing for "values agenda" items, like penalizing online gambling, a gay marriage ban and an upcoming vote on protecting the Pledge of Allegiance from certain kinds of judicial action. Illinois Republican Mark Kirk, head of a GOP centrist group in the House, argues that suburban voters are crucial to the long-term growth of the party, and has put forward a centrist, "suburban agenda" aimed at drawing them in. But elements of the agenda - like anti-sprawl legislation, which...
...every Democratic candidate is a populist this year-after all, Hillary Clinton is running for re-election-but Webb, Ohio's Democratic Senate candidate Sherrod Brown and a raft of congressional candidates are running as no-holds-barred gutbucket populists, and most of the other Democratic candidates have touches of populism in their pitches. In Tennessee, for example, moderate Democrat Harold Ford Jr. has embraced the right-wing House Republican immigration plan in his Senate campaign. "I don't think we ran an ad where [Republican beer baron] Pete Coors wasn't seen wearing a tuxedo," says Mandy Grunwald...
While smaller than their open-air counterparts, indoor water parks are still massive: 35,000 sq. ft. or larger, with elaborate networks of raft rides and body slides, plus fountains, wave pools and shallow areas for toddlers. Giant skylights bathe the parks in natural light by day; filtering systems constantly clean the water and pump in fresh air from outside. At Great Wolf, the indoor air temperature and the water are kept at a balmy 84°F, says CEO John Emery...
...host plays himself. He talks to people. Sometimes, if the job is especially tricky, he has to hold a microphone. It is a job that, theoretically, anyone can do but that talented people have done terribly. (Sorry, Roseanne.) So with millions of dollars riding on the choice--and a raft of daytime and prime-time chat and competition shows searching for talent--what is, as Simon Cowell would say on Idol, the "X factor" that makes the perfect host...