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This Disney buff’s favorite movie is The Lion King, but his favorite superhero is Wil E. Coyote. “I like the bad characters in general,” Sala-I-Martin says. “Jafar is my favorite, but Scar is pretty cool too.” Long ago, he decided that he would name his child after the villain in the Disney movie released the year in which he or she was born. As potentially foolish as this may seem (who wants a child named Shere Khan?), he and his wife were blessed...
...doesn't Congress rescind this insidious tax break for manufacturing filthy fuels that pollute our air and scar our land? Our use of 19th century energy sources that damage our environment is a true embarrassment. DIANE MARIE ANGER Boca Raton...
...could be the great American novel. It's long and tough, complexly weathered, as if battered by hurricanes, twisters, unseasonable dry spells. The high hair, dudish sideburns and smoldering glower give him the aspect of a mug on a WANTED poster--a lifer more than a lover. The curved scar slicing through his right eyebrow is the signature to a portrait already rich in character. Other actors sell the moviegoer their affability; Penn's face is a confrontation with the dangerous unknown. It dares you to go on the bumpy ride that is so often a Sean Penn film...
That gift has won him (in these pages two years ago) the title of America's Best Actor--though, he jokes, "I don't think I've ever been in danger of being America's Best Movie Star." Or America's best-behaved one. That scar, for instance: it's the memento of a bar fight with a superbuff gym fetishist--a "mirror athlete," Penn calls him. In 1987 the actor did a month in jail for bopping an extra. His four-year marriage to Madonna made for all manner of naughty headlines. He has lost a few industry friends...
...considering just two years of safety data submitted by Inamed. Many of the injuries don't appear until at least 5 years post-implant. Studies and experience show that most of the devices eventually rupture, and can cause infection, interfere with mammogram readings and trigger a painful shrinkage of scar tissue around them...