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...West Wing, but back when the White House drama was just a glimmer in the eyes of NBC's programming execs, ROB LOWE, a.k.a. deputy communications director Sam Seaborn, was expected to be the biggest draw as the resident fox in chief. Now--crisis in the situation room, Sir!--Lowe is making like Jim Jeffords and ditching the party. "As much as it hurts to admit it, it has been increasingly clear for quite a while that there was no longer a place for Sam Seaborn on The West Wing," he said. Reports say one reason Lowe is leaving next...
...From the Quarry Bay subway station, it's a stiff stroll up Mount Parker road to the rarely-frequented Sir Cecil's Ride. The three-kilometer-long, narrow dirt path snakes its way west, ducking through thick forest. If your timing is right, you will emerge just as the sun sinks behind the skyscraper-studded retail district of Causeway...
When he saw the drawing in April, Sir Timothy Clifford recognized Michelangelo "at a glance." It took three months of scrutiny for scholars to verify that Clifford, director of the National Galleries of Scotland, had discovered America's first Michelangelo in 26 years when he stumbled upon it in the archives of New York City's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Clifford and his fellow art sleuths shared with TIME the clues that convinced them. --By Sean Gregory...
...Rodgers and Hart collaborated once more: five new songs for a revival of their 1927 hit "A Connecticut Yankee." The last lyric Hart wrote was for "To Keep My Love Alive," sung by a noble lady of who tires easily of men - 15 husbands, 15 early funerals. "Sir Philip played the harp; I cussed the thing./ I crowned him with his harp to bust the thing./ And now he plays where harps are just the thing,/ To keep my love alive." Hart's blithe wickedness is indebted to Cole Porter's "list" songs like...
When you marry a man of immense wealth and fame, certain aspects of the wedding take care of themselves. HEATHER MILLS, an anti-land-mines activist who married SIR PAUL McCARTNEY last week, didn't have to worry about what type of flower to choose for her bouquet: she carried McCartney roses, a variety named after her husband in 1993. She walked down the aisle to the tune of Heather, which McCartney wrote for her on his latest album. And she was surrounded by McCartney's famous friends, including Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton, in an Irish castle the couple...