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...million paternity suit by his live-in girlfriend. (He reacted to her charges with a press release saying he had been shocked to discover she was an ex-stripper, and that all she had left him were "heart palpitations, a small box of memorabilia and a red G-string.") Looper was not considered a serious contender against Burks...
...jarring example of the changing face of global diplomacy, GERI HALLIWELL, formerly Ginger Spice, last week embarked on her career as a United Nations goodwill ambassador with a can-do spirit and a string of mild expletives. "I'm damn well going to use my fame positively!" the newly decolletage-free pop star exclaimed at a U.N. press conference. So while her former bandmates tour the world, Halliwell, 26, will preach to it. She'll stump for the U.N. Population Fund, promoting family-planning issues in developing countries that may not know enough about birth control but are surely familiar...
...believe in what she's singing. On the CD's first single, Thank U, Morissette pays tribute to the things that have forced her to become stronger and wiser: "Thank you India/ Thank you terror/ Thank you disillusionment." On another song, That I Would Be Good, she offers a string of self-affirmations: "That I would be good even if I gained 10 pounds/ That I would be fine even if I went bankrupt...
...plot continuity adds comic flair to the most serious interchanges, the text of The Compleat Wrks really isn't much different than what you'd find on 10 randomly selected pages of the Riverside Edition. With men playing women, pathetic melodrama, the overuse of gaudy props (i.e. silly string which makes several repeat appearances as a vomit substitute) one begins to wonder if this isn't Shakespeare as it was meant to be. A frequent object of ridicule throughout the show are Shakespeare companies that fret about making Shakespeare accessible to modern audiences. The show suggests that...
...that is not incentive enough, the Harvard seniors also have their 32-1 Ivy record to defend, not to mention their string of three consecutive Ivy League championships...