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Rabbi Wiener, 86, gives tours and speeches at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and lives in Silver Spring...
...would fly faster than the speed of sound. It was dangerous, he knew. A British test pilot had been blown to bits going Mach 0.94. The crew at Murdoc Air Base in California, not knowing the extent of Yeager's injuries, sent him off with a jolly "Hi-yo, Silver...
Carson spent publication day in her home in Silver Spring, Md., preparing for speeches and a book tour, according to biographer Linda Lear. In a letter to a friend, Carson called Silent Spring "something I believed in so deeply that there was no other course; nothing that ever happened made me even consider turning back." When the book appeared, industry critics assailed "the hysterical woman," but it became an instant best seller with lasting impact. It spurred the banning of DDT in the U.S., the passage of major environmental laws and eventually a global treaty to phase out 12 pesticides...
...kissing the "unbelievably hot" Halle Berry after arriving onstage to pick up his Oscar, and that if Julia Roberts loses any more weight and keeps wearing severe gowns, she will soon look like Sarah Jessica Parker's taller twin. I also award Steve Martin, the evening's host, a silver star (make that diamond; it's the 75th) for some "A" material in the opening monologue, and for deflecting both the solemnity of the occasion and the political passions simmering in the crowd. The ever-cool star was a lion tamer with the whip of irony...
...Cradle is Li's best Western film. In part this is because producer Joel Silver and director Andrzej Bartkowiak have fun ornamenting the action formula; the climax has four burly fights occurring simultaneously. It's also because Li doesn't have to do the heavy plot lifting. His co-star gets that task...