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...winter, the spat became academic: Franks was getting all the time he needed to prepare his massive strike force. Now, with a war as little as a week or two away, the plan looks remarkably similar to what Franks proposed more than a year ago: five carriers are on station in the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, the equivalent of five divisions have been dispersed to positions on Iraq's borders, and a total of 250,000 troops are standing by in the region...
...December, only a few details of the show were decided. A New Day would feature a mix of 18 Dion songs and covers, among them such classic Vegas numbers as Fever and I've Got the World on a String. All the backdrops--including Times Square, a train station and a Florentine campo--would be broadcast on a giant $6 million LED screen. There would be a wordless Romeo and Juliet interlude, a tree that would bloom onstage and a flying orchestra. And, yes, there would be a moon character dressed entirely in white. "He illustrates the emotions...
...worked at a radio station that summer in western South Dakota. In the fall, I returned to my hometown of Yankton, doing odd jobs around town and trying to figure out what to do next. My parents were pretty upset with me. One morning my mother was watching the Today show, and the local newscaster cut in from a TV station 60 miles away. My mother said, "You're better than he is. Why don't you try and get that job?" I arranged for an interview, and shortly I was hired as a staff announcer, noon news anchor...
...border coup. These films are worth the hype, and then some. And for once, they have plenty of regional company. Years used to separate successes like Argentina's The Official Story (1985), the only Latin film to win the foreign-language Oscar, and Brazil's poignant Central Station (1998), the Oscar-nominated tale of a cynical Rio woman who helps a street urchin find his family. But starting with Central Station, Latin American directors have found what many critics are calling buena onda, a consistent "groove" of relevant, top-drawer filmmaking that uses distinctly regional stories and styles but makes...
...height (hitting his full 1.91 m as a teen) and a taste for clowning. So when he went off to Cambridge he gravitated, as his hero had a dozen years earlier, to the university's famed Footlights drama society. Improbably, he ran into Cleese in a London Underground station, introduced himself and soon was writing for the Python crew. That led to assignments on the Dr. Who sci-fi TV drama and a chance to write an original BBC radio series. The result, Hitchhiker, was a sensation, and before long Adams was amassing fast cars, dangerous women and the world...