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Edwards—now the Crimson’s leading receiver and an All-Ivy candidate—would look up at Fitzpatrick like he was personally responsible for the so-called beef brisket on his plate. But then he would soften. More than a year removed from seeing playing time, the last thing Edwards wanted to talk about was football, but he’d always try to answer anyway. He couldn’t ignore his quarterback...
...hope that the more respectable celebrities will exercise caution in their holiday special endeavors. My few words of advice to entertainers as a holiday consumer: don’t use this as a time to experiment with crossing genres from singing to acting or vice versa, or to soften a hard image by surrounding yourself with singing children or elderly people. And when in doubt, do as some stars do and mysteriously, or rather strategically, disappear from the holiday radar screen—at least until Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin?...
...stupid human trick he can perform himself, DAVID LETTERMAN shared a rare piece of personal news with the Late Show audience last week: his longtime girlfriend, former Late Show staff member Regina Lasko, 42, is very pregnant. During the show, sidekick bandleader Paul Shaffer suggested that fatherhood might soften the curmudgeonly host, who underwent quadruple-bypass surgery nearly four years ago. Or maybe not. "If you look at it this way," Letterman told the audience, "at 56, by the time the child has trouble in life ... I'll be long gone. By the time the kid's out stealing cars...
...year-old soybean are true, it may be the closest thing on earth to a magic bean. Not only is soy a low-fat food, but it's also believed to fight cancer, lower cholesterol, relieve hot flashes, boost bone density, brighten skin and even soften beards. Though none of these claims have yet been proved, manufacturers are riding high on the soy-is-healthy wave and pumping the marketplace full of soy products--some 300 new ones hit grocery-store shelves just last year. In all, more than 3,000 products are now available--and consumers are hungrily snapping...
...studio in lower Manhattan, he and his assistants sit at computer keyboards to soften lighting, heighten colors or erase crowsfeet. (The hardest flaw to deal with? "Bad toes.") But in a day when fashion magazines are publishing "Frankenstars"--women assembled for the page by bolting a head from one shot to a body from another--some of the flesh-and-blood stars are protesting. In recent months Kate Winslet and Julia Roberts have complained that they were unreasonably remade (not by Dangin) on magazine covers. "Postproduction capability should not be looked at as a voodoo practice," he insists...