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...faces as he found them. From him we learn that Sophia Loren manages to remain majestic even when she's just sitting around an airport, but that Richard Burton was scuffed and dented even on his good days. We learn that Burt Reynolds in a houndstooth, bell-bottom leisure suit is a remarkable sight, especially since you just know that Reynolds thought the outfit was the last word in suave. Anyone who tells you they don't enjoy the thought that wealth and fame are no defense against cluelessness is lying...
...million other deaf or severely hearing-impaired Americans, he can't follow a movie without some help--from captioning or a companion. Last month his father Rob Todd filed a class action in federal court in Texas against 12 film-production companies and theater chains. The suit, the first legal slap at movie studios in an emotional struggle between deaf activists and the film industry, claims that by failing to provide enough captioned screenings, distributors and theaters are violating the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. Studios should supply theaters with open-captioned films, in which dialogue appears onscreen, Todd...
...Asai, has never talked with the press. His eldest son, 39-year-old Katsue Asai, serves as a kind of general manager for the group and does agree to meet?the first time, he says, he has given an interview to a journalist. A serious man in a business suit, he explains how the movement was started by his grandfather in 1957, when he and his acolytes splintered from the centuries-old Nichiren sect of Buddhism. Kenshokai differs from other Nichiren sects?especially the politically powerful Soka Gakkai?in that its practitioners see it as destined to become the national...
...disorder: restlessness, heavy drinking, irritability, depression, survivor's guilt, lack of direction and barely concealed nihilism." He fulfilled a dream in 1947, though, by setting up the Magnum photo cooperative, named after the large champagne bottle. Capa next traveled to the Soviet Union, but the cold war did not suit his talents. Grazed - and badly shaken - by a bullet in Tel Aviv in 1948, he sat out the Korean War. But the gambler in him was lured back into the fray in 1954, to work again for Life magazine. "This is going to be a beautiful story," he said...
...from the media frenzy that followed Wednesday's decision, some lawyers agree with him. They say that in the strictest reading of the Constitution there is no room for religious terminology in what should be a secular space. While some legal experts applauded the intent of Newdow's suit, no one seemed to think the ruling would survive very long. But for pundits and politicians the fuss can go on forever...