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DIED. FREDDIE BLASSIE, 85, early villainous hero of professional wrestling during the 1950s and '60s; in Hartsdale, N.Y. He helped propel his TV celebrity by jeering the crowds, biting opponents in the ring and calling foes "pencil-neck geeks." In 1983 he appeared with the late comic Andy Kaufman in My Breakfast with Blassie, a film parody of My Dinner with Andre...
...taboo-teasing 2001 documentary Women's Private Parts, in which Hong Kong women explored their deepest, darkest sexual desires. In Truth or Dare she brings similar realism and sympathy to the tale of a coed group of six twentysomething Hong Kong roommates. They are caricatures who nonetheless ring true: the wild girl (Candy Lo), the dreamy girl (the dreamy Karena Lam), the dork (Roy Chow) who loves the dreamy girl. Too broke to go out, they stay in and play Truth or Dare (though without the tequila I remember being a key part of the game). One night they take...
...said he considered it "unlikely" that other donors will come up with the $2 billion, and points out that the law doesn't provide "an automatic trigger" for a full billion to the Fund even if they do. But having thrown down the gauntlet, Bush is now in the ring. Says Sharonann Lynch of the advocacy group HealthGAP: "If other heads of state challenge Bush back, what can he do but pay in his billion?" As much as they welcome the competitive dynamic between the U.S. and other rich donors, experts don't want to let politicians get ahead...
...celebration of his own. He brought Kenser a menu one morning, offering to treat her to breakfast in bed. “I think she ordered French Toast,” he says. But when Heck lifted the lid off the silver platter, he revealed a sparkling engagement ring. Hannah accepted the delectable proposal, and the two will marry next summer...
...discussed marriage before. One cold night over winter break, Stoltz convinced Levenson to come out with him, even though she was very tired. The couple was on the 95th floor of the John Hancock building in Chicago when Stoltz began fumbling in his pockets and pulled out a ring. But it wasn’t an engagement ring, just a special token he had given to her early in their relationship. It wasn’t until they were driving home and missed their exit that Levenson began to realize there was still another ring coming. Stoltz took...