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...summer feints and machinations of American politics have not spared the Reform Party of Ross Perot. Richard Lamm, the former Democratic Governor of Colorado, has made no secret of his long-shot hope to become the party's presidential nominee. This week he plans to announce that he will actually run for it. Then it's on to an appearance on a favorite Perot stage, CNN's Larry King Live. But two important questions remain for Lamm. Is the perpetually coy Perot still determined to run himself and merely using Lamm as a prop to generate attention? And even...
...their respective traintracks of plot-line-toward-hero-ism. Rounding out the cast are stirring love interests ranging from noble stripper (Vivica Fox) to First Lady (Mary McDonnell) and a motley crew of often comic characters, including Star Trek's Bret Spiner ("Data") as a scientist in a secret...
...house that is zapped into holocaustal flames by a flying saucer's death ray in Independence Day. The house that, come Christmas, will be invaded by uggy green creatures with no manners at all in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! The house whose primary resident supposedly knows every secret of a secretive government--the hot dish about alien sightings, alien abductees, alien autopsies--except that, as viewers of TV shows like The X-Files are taught, the President doesn't know the half of it, because the information is kept from him by conspiratorial feds who may be, God help...
Their first U.S. project was Universal Soldier, a hearty exercise in RoboCop sadomachismo that starred Jean-Claude Van Damme. Then, in 1994 Emmerich and Devlin did Stargate, about a secret government agency detecting signs of extraterrestrial life and discovering that the pyramids were made by aliens. With Kurt Russell as the director's standard rogue grunt, the film was a surprise...
Friday, author of the best sellers My Secret Garden and My Mother/My Self, has produced a thorough exploration of the meaning of beauty. This is no "guide for girls," but rather a full-out search party seeking to understand how we arrived at a place where "whether we are 5 or 55 the number one predictor of self-esteem is self perception of our physical appearance." In pursuit of her answer, Friday ricochets among personal, sociological and psychological investigation. Ultimately, however, her goal is not so much to undermine the current ruling troika of "looks/beauty/appearance" as to confront the obsession...