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...sure about those murders in Brentwood, but PAULA BARBIERI thinks O.J. Simpson is guilty of one thing--being a very bad boyfriend. Not that Barbieri's choice in menfolk is all that shrewd. In her new book, The Other Woman, she reveals that on the night of the murders she was on a date in Las Vegas with Michael Bolton. She had previously lived with Dolph Lundgren and hung out with Roman Polanski and George Hamilton. Barbieri, who says her support of Simpson during the criminal trial led to the loss of all her money, her career and her apartment...
...deal, but is made to be. There's no edge, no grit: it's the sanitized, homogenized Hollywood comic vision of a Greenleaf, Indiana, learning to accept gays, if not to be perfectly politically correct about them. "In & Out" isn't particularly subtle or inventive, but it's shrewd enough to be a comedy about homosexuality that won't make most heterosexuals uncomfortable...
...paces behind the times. A few years and a thousand talk shows later, she became the Princess Victim, bulimic, suicidal, betrayed by a caddish paramour with a tell-all book, trapped in a loveless marriage. But that image too was fleeting, replaced by a very '90s portrait of a shrewd operator, better at public relations than all the palace spear throwers. By the time she agreed to a divorce, she had embraced the American notion that marriage is more about self-fulfillment than sacrifice or lines of succession. She had built up such reserves of public sympathy by this time...
...comical and discomforting. He never shuts up throughout the entire movie (except when he's staring into Alice's eyes), which makes you want to slam your hands on his shoulders and shake him into speaking coherent sentences. Patrick Stewart brings a fine creepiness to the role of the shrewd, vicious Dr. Jonas. He's a villain you love to hate, especially when Jerry finally gives him his comeuppance...
Yogi? Casper? Flat Top? Scooby Doo? The naming of these rocks and formations [SPACE, July 21] seems shrewd as a public relations ploy, but flies in the face of naming heavenly bodies after illustrious figures of myth, science and literature. Will the first earthly Mars walker who greets these familiar objects on site at Ares Vallis be likely to record for posterity the query "Dr. Boo-Boo, I presume"? Is this a failure of our educational system? Did the ingenious individuals who are involved in this project not avail themselves of the liberal-arts curriculums at their distinguished universities...