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...occasions that Monica and the President exchanged gifts. But by the time the fourth manager, Asa Hutchinson, asserted that "the big question is, does the President return Monica Lewinsky's call? Yes he does," you could almost hear the thunk of Senate foreheads hitting tabletops in stultifying-speech-induced slumber. "For the majority of Americans, who believe that what the President did isn't worthy of impeachment," says TIME senior writer Eric Pooley, "this is the terminus of absurdity...
...slumber comes two years after Ted Turner hectored his fellow billionaires to stop hoarding their market-inflated wealth. Last fall Turner (who is vice chairman of Time Warner, TIME's parent company) pledged $1 billion of his now $6 billion fortune to the United Nations in the form of an annual pledge of $100 million in Time Warner stock. He may have started something. The world's richest man, Bill Gates, long derided for being too penurious, has put $2 billion into his two charitable foundations. Earlier this month he donated $100 million in cash toward vaccinating children...
Girls, break out your jammies and slam books--it's slumber party time! Practical Magic is one to see with the chicks, if you can bear it. Sisters Sally and Gillian Owens are born into a family of witches. Sally tries to fit into a small New England town, while Gillian looks for love in all the wrong places. The familial curse is that a man who loves one of the Owens' witches will meet an untimely death, as Gillian's abusive boyfriend does at the hands of Bullock. Right. Now, it never promises to be Citizen Kane...
Girls, break out your jammies, curlers and slam books--it's slumber party time! You'll be inviting a break-up if you drag your boyfriend to this flick, and you would be wasting your money to see it in the theater. Practical Magic is one to see with the chicks, if you can bear it, (no guys, Kidman and Bullock don't bare it, this one is rated PG-13). Dreamier than The Craft, Practical Magic is also more childlike, lacking the rebelliousness which previous witch movies have cultivated...
...scene may arouse some, but eventually, it is just one more cheap trick to keep us in our seats. To give the flick a little credit, it never promises to be Citizen Kane, and it provides some good laughs and a feelgood finale. If you want a brain-candy slumber party movie, rent Practical Magic, by all means. Just don't expect it to work any magic...