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...thought you were worked up about the price of coffee. COLIN FIRTH is immersed in the issue. The Bridget Jones's Diary star endured a java shower for an ad campaign for the British charity Oxfam. "If I'm paying nearly $3 for a cup of coffee and some Ethiopian farmer gets 2% of that," he says, "where does the rest of it go?" Saying he is reluctant to be "just a windbag" on fair trade, Firth has also invested in a chain of coffee shops in London that pledges to compensate the crop's farmers fairly. He has worked...
Indictment on child pornography charges. Redefining the term “golden shower.” An alleged predilection for young girls. Mace in the face. A $75 million lawsuit brought by Jay-Z for breach of contract...
...apple of his family’s eye, someone who carried the hopes of many on his shoulders, and someone who wore his enormous potential with a winning smile and an easy heart. He was the kind of person who, when he shook his hair, sent a shower of soft light into the world...
Self-anointed revolutionaries and other theoreticians have tried throughout this century to make the theater esoteric and archetypal, depicting a delirious dreamscape, an incantatory religious ritual, a shower of aimless verbal fireworks or perhaps a murmured hint of psychotic menace. Too often setting such moods has been an end in itself rather than a means to what satisfies audiences: telling a coherent, affecting story. In the effort to avoid being old-fashioned, to prove that the stage has an authentic voice beyond the naturalism commonly found in film and TV, theater directors often turn their backs on narrative...
...broadcast live around the world, brought in an additional $72 million. The success of these projects, as well as Geldof s cocky fervor, inspired such allied enterprises as FarmAid, Fashion Aid and--in the late spring of '86--Sport Aid. He knows that much more than a shower of dollars is required to combat famine. "We could spend our money tomorrow, and it could keep 30 million people alive for seven weeks," he says, "and then they'd die. Or, we can build wells and give them a life. I prefer to do that...