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...Tigers' sole nod to their lameness was hiring Mike Veeck, the son of Bill Veeck, the Hall of Fame owner who organized the disco-album bonfire at Comiskey Park in the '70s, to do their promotions. So they did have Duct Tape Night, Magic Night with illusionist Aaron Radatz, a Christian concert after an Angels game and Baseball Card Blitz, where kids under 15 got to trample one another on a field littered with 50,000 packs of baseball cards. But Veeck didn't go far enough. First of all, he should have removed the Tigers from those baseball-card...
Thurman waited nine long years for the chance to be brutalized onscreen. After getting a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for Pulp Fiction in 1994, she performed with varying degrees of conviction in stiff period pieces (A Month by the Lake, The Golden Bowl), little-seen indies (Tape, Chelsea Walls) and a few conspicuously horrible blockbusters (Batman & Robin, The Avengers). "I never built a niche for myself," says Thurman a bit defensively. "Some of that was because I didn't want the niches I could have had--the romantic heroine, the victim, the girl who needs to be rescued...
...given night, the members of OutKast can be found circling their hometown of Atlanta on Highway 285, writing songs while the rest of the city sleeps. Andre "3000" (Andre Benjamin) will caress his giant seedpod of an Afro and hum melodies into a tape recorder while Big Boi (Antwan Patton), his high school friend and rap partner of 11 years, chugs sweet tea and rhymes phrases into his cell phone's digital voice bank. It makes for a pretty picture--best friends who struggled together, got famous together and stayed together--or rather, it would, if Andre...
...home, our leadership continues to peddle fear. The new Department of Homeland Security whipped up enough fear of chemical attacks that there was a run on tarp and duct tape. John Ashcroft’s website defending the USA PATRIOT Act is not only frightening but alliterative. Take a look at www.lifeandliberty.gov to read all about the “deadly plans of terrorists dedicated to destroying America.” And President Bush, in each of his last three addresses to the nation, has not once failed to conclude his remarks with references to “dangers...
...estimated 350 members of the press corps swarmed a candidates entrance, necks craned and tape recorders extended in hopes of catching a shot or sound byte of the news-makers...