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What single factor may explain why Whirlpool Corp. no longer donates to Planned Parenthood, why the Walt Disney Co. has a Roman Catholic priest on its board of directors and why Best Buy is cracking down on minors who try to buy shoot-'em-up video and computer games? Answer: a bunch of Catholic investors and their allies want it that...
...drifting off in every class, assembly, and other academic setting at which I was present. Each of my friends has their own favorite moment. Mine is the time I started nodding forward in English class until my head finally dropped so far it hit my desk, prompting me to shoot straight up. The entire class erupted in laughter...
...Meanwhile, his colleagues at the Herald feared for DeFede's safety. The reporter who had called him at home with the news of the suicide immediately transferred DeFede to Herald publisher, Jesus Diaz Jr. ?I think there was some ridiculous speculation that he had come to the Herald to shoot me. The publisher wanted to reassure me that I was okay...
Film enchantment, of a baroque species that mixes the sordid with the soaring, is Gilliam's specialty--that, and making movies with big ideas and impossibly spectacular imagery. At times his films become missions impossible. The Spanish shoot of his epic The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, with Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort, was so plagued by calamities that the only productive thing to come out of it was the disaster-movie documentary Lost in La Mancha. So many other projects have stalled that, at 64, Gilliam has joined the ranks of such hard-luck masters as Orson Welles...
...apology late last week after London police pumped five bullets at point-blank range into a suspected terrorist who turned out to be innocent. The Brazilian had been wearing an unusually heavy coat for summer when plainclothes cops chased him onto a train and revealed previously secret "shoot to kill" guidelines for dealing with suicide bombers. The incident occurred the day after four bombs went off almost simultaneously on Underground trains and a bus in a chilling echo of the blasts that killed 56 people two weeks ago. But this time only the detonators blew up. One theory is that...