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DIED. DAN CURTIS, 78, TV producer; in Los Angeles. In the early 1960s, Curtis pitched a campy soap set on a desolate Maine estate and centered on a vampire and other gothic creatures. It became the cult hit Dark Shadows, which ran on ABC from 1966 to '71. Later he produced and directed two of the best-rated mini-series in history: The Winds of War and its sequel, War and Remembrance--starring Robert Mitchum, above with Curtis--for which he won an Emmy...
...next day and a half, together and separately, we were politely interrogated by a team of ECOMOG military police about where we had come from and what we had seen. We slept for two nights on the floor of the M.P. headquarters, ate military rations and were given soap and buckets of water to wash with...
GABRIELLE CARTERIS (Andrea) Andrea never had it so good as the others. Well, some things never change. After five episodes, Palmetto Pointe, her widely ignored teen soap on the "i" channel, ran out of money...
...hasn't cost a thing." That frugal ingenuity is shared by many rural women, says Wendy Hucker, of the Pioneer Women's Hut museum at Tumbarumba, New South Wales: "People around here still use vinegar and newspaper to clean the windows, kerosene for getting grease marks off clothes, bar soap and cold water for grass stains." The "culture of capability," as Thomson calls it, was born of hardship. People had very little, so they had to be handy. Tips were exchanged with neighbors and passed from parents to children. "People no longer do that," Hucker says. "They don't know...
...brief and not exactly enjoyable encounter. As time went by, and the process in the Hague dragged on year after year, its meaning was somehow lost to me amidst Slobo's endless rants and the prosecution's legal maneuvers; watching the trial felt like watching an overstretched soap opera, and I eventually gave up. Milosevic, I thought, was a thing of the past, and it was time to move...