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...created for the event is destroyed during the festival's climax: the ritualistic incineration of the Burning Man, the 12-m effigy that dominates the camp until the festival's last night. Naturally, there's a great sponsorship opportunity here for kerosene manufacturers - but anyone in a suit and tie stands little chance of making it past the gate...
...Fiennes a star as the silky Nazi sadist in Schindler's List and the enigmatic lover in The English Patient. But those hits, both of which won Oscars for Best Picture, are, respectively, 12 and nine years old. Since then, he has used his wattage to choose parts that suit or stretch his range. He is less worried about his payday or the films' potential grosses, although he can wince over those that failed. Of The Avengers, a high-profile flop, he rues "some spark not there" with co-star Uma Thurman and curses an inapt chapeau: "I looked crap...
...Sherwood, who is fighting a civil suit filed by a woman less than half his age with whom he says he had a five-year affair. No criminal charges were filed against Sherwood after his mistress, who is now 29, called 911 and told police Sherwood had tried to choke her during a backrub. But she has sued the four-term Republican from Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania for $5.5 million, saying he repeatedly struck her, violently yanked her hair and tried to strangle her, promising after each incident never to do it again and begging her not to leave him. Sherwood...
DIED. ABE HIRSCHFELD, 85, oddball real estate tycoon and publicity hound, who offered $1 million to Paula Jones to settle her sexual harassment suit against President Bill Clinton in 1998; in New York City. The irascible eccentric amassed his fortune developing semi-enclosed parking garages in Manhattan, and his increasingly bizarre behavior--he was jailed in 2000 for ordering a hit on a business partner--always kept him in the papers, including the pages of the New York Post, which he owned for two tumultuous weeks in 1993. During his brief tenure, a disgruntled staff ran the headline...
...York Knicks general manager Isaiah Thomas says that, when he was younger, he started putting white handkerchiefs in his suit jackets to imitate you. Are Knicks going to be walking around New York with white hankies? I don?t know. It depends if they have a runny nose...