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...viewers: Fox News doesn't think it's better than you (unless you're the competition). It is not handing down news on tablets; it is not ashamed to look like Access Hollywood. Its on-air talent is colloquial--"Slammed on the floor!" said a reporter describing Janet Reno's public fainting spell last week, as if she had been upended by The Rock--with less patrician polish than traditional newscasts. It's a far cry from William F. Buckley--a conservative haven that appeals to social-class resentment. O'Reilly, the highest-rated host in cable news, plays...
Rollerball, directed by John McTiernan of Die Hard fame, skates into theaters today. Starring Chris Klein (the American Pie movies), LL Cool J (Toys, Any Given Sunday), Jean Reno (The Professional , Ronin) and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (X-Men, Dirty Work), this film depicts a future in which corporations, instead of countries, govern the people of the world. The story focuses on an extremely popular sport called Rollerball— created by executives in order to avert attention from their tyrannical control over the general populace, the show gradually becomes more and more violent as the man in charge, Alexis Petrovich...
...three-day, $100,000 race to 120 in Hong Kong?billed "The Color of Money I"?against top American Earl Strickland, winning 120-117 and collecting $75,000 (less a $10,000 winner-to-loser payment he and Strickland agreed to before the match). A year earlier in Reno, Nevada, again facing Strickland, he had produced one of the most memorable shots on record. "Earl left him on the end rail totally tied up behind the nine ball," recalls Helfert, the tournament director. "It looked like there was no possible way for him to hit the object ball, which...
...Pool is a game of positioning: you shoot to sink when you can and play safety when you must, and the hustle is always on. Reyes lives as he plays, staying home, safe, when he's not playing, decrying his sad slide, then going to Tokyo or Wales or Reno when there's money on the table. The last time we meet, at Nita's, he answers questions, poses for pictures, but he's clearly ready to do something else. What exactly, he doesn't know. Maybe wander around town, he says, and look for a game...
...first. There is also enough time for a cure to come along, which might well happen if politics don't get in the way. And Parkinson's is fashionable these days. It's a hot disease, thanks to celebrity sufferers like the Pope, Billy Graham, Janet Reno, Muhammad Ali and Michael J. Fox. Even, they say, Yasser Arafat...