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...Amid the crowd I encounter "Meet the Parents" director Jay Roach exultant at that film's success. He tells me that he will start shooting the third Austin Powers film in the fall for release next summer. He exudes an enthusiastic charm. He knows he is laboring in terrain where pleasing the audience is more important than kissing up to Academy members, who usually ignore middlebrow comedy, and he seems quite comfortable with...
spawned Limp Bizkit or Papa Roach. Think Stone Temple Pilots without...
...steer them to the iconoclastic New York Dolls; they stumble into the cheesy pyrotechnics of Kiss. You send them off to discover early Chicago; they come back with Kansas. And what if, after all your careful guidance, they still love Limp Bizkit and Papa Roach? What if they still go out and buy that stuff by Eminem? At that point only the wisdom of age will do. Go back and take an unflinching look at your old record collection. There's probably a Black Sabbath album in there somewhere...
...They slashed their inventories and their payrolls, and now many are even beating Wall Street's (much lowered) expectations. That's great, but listen for a moment to Morgan Stanley chief economist Stephen Roach. "Five of the last six U.S. recessions have had a double dip, in which we've seemed to come into a recovery and then had a relapse," he says. "It takes that second dip to purge the economy of excesses...
...slow," a former classmate said at the Oklahoma City home of Allen's mother. Mary Allen herself is marginally articulate. She sat barefoot in her parlor, crying at the mention of Wanda while a roach tiptoed over a grandchild's sneaker. A relative with Tourette's syndrome--one of several kin with disabilities--called, and the speaker phone broadcast a tirade in which he threatened a member of the defense team. "It's hard to believe," Presson said, "but Wanda Jean is the brain trust of that family...