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JANUARY 2000 Annoyed by paparazzi trying to photograph her while she eats a hot dog on a New York City sidewalk, Monica goes "ballistic," according to witnesses, and embeds the heel of her Manolo Blahnik shoe in the forehead of a photographer. Monica is charged with assault with an expensive weapon. Under Mayor Rudy Giuliani's new "zero tolerance" assault-shoe laws, she faces 25 years to life; but since she now has competent lawyers, the case is quietly settled out of court. "Can you imagine if Ginsburg were still representing her?" comments ABC's Jeff Toobin...
...Taylor and Express, both women's clothing stores, Structure, Express' male counterpart, and Aldo shoe store the prices are also same regardless of location...
That said, shoe-size supercomputers were the only data-crunching gadgets I did not see at Comdex last week. Plenty of ultrathin, superlight laptops were on exhibit though--the industry's response to the critical acclaim that met Sony's launch of the under-3-lb. Vaio earlier this year. While Sony has just introduced an even newer model, the Vaio 505FX, people looking for a great on-the-road machine should check out Toshiba's Portege 3010CT. The Portege weighs 2.9 lbs. and still packs a 10.4-in. active-matrix color screen, a 4.3-gigabyte hard disk...
...with the new Orb drive, which holds 2.2-gigabyte disks ($29). In January, Castlewood Systems Inc. will start shipping the first external Orb drives ($199). According to Syed Iftikar, the company's president, by this time next year, 5-gigabyte disks will be available. No word yet on a shoe-size supercomputer...
...some funny, scattershot gag writing reminiscent of Caesar's Your Show of Shows, on which Simon once worked ("But, Mother..." "Don't 'But, Mother' me." "But, Father..."). Director-choreographer Rob Marshall moves the pieces briskly in everything from the perky Rich Kids Rag number to a chain-gang soft shoe. Most of all, there's Short, who gives the kind of knockout Broadway performance that delights us even more because it's delivered by an interloper from Hollywood...