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...Visiting Zheng He's Indonesian ports of call isn't exactly a scenic journey. There's beauty, not least in the spirit of people who will without fail return a smile with a bigger smile, but most of these places don't show up on postcards. The next leg on Sumatra is a prime example: between the dusty, trashy port town of Dumai and the city of Medan some 10 bumpy hours by car to the north, the eye catches on the bare-bones shacks with their thatched roofs and cleanly swept earthen yards, smarts through the smoke of fires...
...wedding video made it onto national television, and all of Mexico saw Fox give Sahagun a delicate peck on the cheek, only to move in for some lip action at the prodding of spectators. When asked if he was happy, Fox said, "Just take a look at my smile." That smile may not last, since Ana Cristina, Fox's adopted daughter who has filled in informally as First Lady, is said to hate her new stepmother. "Mrs. Martha works with my father," she said last year. "We aren't friends, and that's it." Looks as if it's time...
MAYBE HE'LL SMILE FOR THEM...
Never had we imagined that the smile could get any bigger. But it did last March, on Oscar night. She accepted her award and the lips parted from ear to ear, from sea to shining sea, even as her memory grew dim. In her now infamous, rambling, exuberant, makes-for-great-television acceptance speech, she unfortunately failed to thank, among others, the real Erin Brockovich, the legal eagle whose fight for justice had inspired the movie that brought the star to the podium. Not even the desperate time signals from orchestra conductor Bill Conti could slow her down...
...would Julia Roberts believe in regret? For the gods have not only blessed her with a $20 million smile, they've been smiling on her ever since 1985, when she graduated from high school in Smyrna, Ga., and headed to New York City to be with her big sister Lisa. "The whole point of me moving was to reunite with her," says Roberts. Acting was an afterthought--"something that I could attempt to do in New York"--but fate saw her coming. On the count of three--Mystic Pizza, Steel Magnolias, Pretty Woman--Roberts was a star...